Sentences with phrase «figures on child poverty»

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«ONS figures show that under this Government, around 300,000 fewer children are in poverty or growing up in workless families.

So the reason the department doesn't want to say very much about the child poverty figure is because Universal Credit had a very distinct effect on child poverty.

The figures were calculated from a UK national figure of # 29 million a year and are based on the population size and child poverty rate within each local authority area.

Commenting on the figures, Kate Green, chief executive of the child poverty action group, said: «Ministers can not take a holiday from their promise to end child poverty, or this is what happens.

Updated figures will be published on Thursday and they are expected to show an increase in the number of children living in households whose incomes are less than 60 % of the UK average — the current measure of child poverty.

Commenting on the latest child poverty figures, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «Many teachers see on a daily basis the effect that living in poverty has on children.

Dr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, has commented on ECP figures providing a Child Poverty map of the UK...

Dr. Born, cited a figure in his Powerpoint presentation that one in five American children are living on or near the poverty line.

The latest figures from the UN show that three - quarters of the population are forced to survive in absolute poverty on less than one dollar a day; over 30 % of all children die before reaching the age of five and one child now dies of preventable diseases and malnutrition every three minutes (480 every day); overall life expectancy is a mere 45 years and almost a third of the country's population has been displaced by the conflict (some four million civilians).