Child poverty is rising among working families while generous benefits cut it for the unemployed, a report has revealed.
The study by the respected Joseph Rowntree Foundation is an indictment of Labour’s record in power - and casts doubt on the Coalition’s ability to deliver its pledge to ‘make work pay’.
It reveals that while the policy of lavishing benefits on the unemployed has helped tackle some aspects of child poverty, many working families have fallen behind.
Child poverty in workless families fell in 2008/9 to 1.6million, despite the impact of the recession.Grim prospects:There are still almost four million children living in poverty in Britain - with more than half coming from homes where at least one parent works
But during the same period child poverty among working families rose to 2.1million – the highest on record.
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