Austerity forces British children into record levels of poverty - World Socialist Web Site
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Austerity forces British children into record levels of poverty
By Joe Mount
10 June 2014
By 2020, an estimated 5 million children—one-third of all children in Britain—will be “sentenced to a lifetime of poverty,” according to new research from the Save the Children charity. An additional 1.4 million children will be forced into poverty during the next six years, according to the research.
This would mean levels of social misery unprecedented in modern British history.
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Currently, 3.5 million children, one-in-four, live in households earning below 60 percent of median income, which is £357 a week after housing costs. Millions lack decent food, housing and clothing.
