Hundreds Endure Life in Urban Ghettoes ; Pockets of Deprivation in Which 60% of Families Claim Benefits
Daily Post › December 17, 2004
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THE gulf between the richest and poorest areas in Merseyside is growing - with Liverpool now housing one eighth of British children living in poverty.
New research has revealed that Merseyside is one of just four inner-city areas that are home to nearly three quarters of Britain's poorest children - with only London and Glasgow enduring a worse record on child poverty.See the full content of this document
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Hundreds Endure Life in Urban Ghettoes ; Pockets of Deprivation in Which 60% of Families Claim Benefits
In these pockets of deprivation, almost 60% of families claim means tested benefits - a figure three times the national average.
Britain's leading social policy charity, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, conducted a detailed report to mark its 100th anniversary.The charity said hundreds in many parts of Liverpool are trapped in "urban ghettoes of acute deprivation" that have see...See the full content of this document
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