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The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) has called for a far-reaching overhaul of the existing poverty measures. The think tank is urging the Government to take into account the 5 main drivers of poverty – family breakdown, worklessness, drug & alcohol addiction, personal debt and educational failure – in its new reforms. The CSJ has devised a ‘life chance risk’ assessment whereby a child would be deemed to be in poverty if they were found to have 1 or 2 life chance risks and their family to fall below one of the income measures. Where a child had 3 or more life chance risks, the child would be considered to be in entrenched poverty. |
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CSJ calls for bold new measure of poverty JRF - Responding to the Annual Poverty lecture speech An alternative option for the Chancellor to ‘think about’? Helping people to achieve what they are capable of Be honest – could you raise a family on the Minimum Wage? |
