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Thinktank warns 200,000 children face poverty post-pandemic
Some 200,000 children will be among 1.1m people plunged into poverty due to Covid-19, a new report by the Progressive Policy Think Tank (IPPR) warns.
Without urgent action to protect families from the financial hardship caused by the pandemic, this would bring the total number of children living in poverty in the UK to 4.5 million, an increase of almost five per cent, IPPR says.
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