Abstract
It is already clear that the Coalition Government's austerity measures have been loaded on lower income families with children. Analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies in Figure 1 provides a summary of the distributional consequences of accumulated changes to taxes and benefits (but not services). The cuts have borne most heavily on children and on poor children...
Original language | English |
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Type | Blog post |
Media of output | online |
Publisher | North East Child Poverty Commission |
Publication status | Published - 9 May 2014 |
Keywords
- child poverty
- austerity