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June 17th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda According to figures released by the Department for Work and Pensions on June 14, 21 percent of children in Scotland (220,000 youngsters) lived in relative poverty in 2010-11, indicating a slight drop of 30,000 on the previous year, after considering families’ housing costs.
If people’s household income is less than 60 percent of the UK median income, they will classed as living in relative poverty.
Warning that the current fall in child poverty will be short-lived, Douglas Hamilton, the head of Save the Children’s in Scotland, said “the numbers are still unacceptably high and there is much more work to be done”.
“The number of children growing up cold and hungry because their parents can’t afford basic essentials is set to rise in Scotland over the next eight years, wiping out all the progress that has been made. The UK Government must stop these spending cuts which are pushing families deeper into poverty and do much more to ensure parents can get decent and well-paid jobs,” he added.
New official data also showed that 18 percent of children in the UK (2.3 million children) lived below the poverty line, indicating a 2 percent decrease on the year before.
“But the long-term view is grim as the number of children living in poverty in the UK is set to increase due to recent spending cuts,” said UNICEF UK Executive Director David Bull.
Meanwhile, Matthew Reed, the Children’s Society chief executive, welcomed the slight drop in the child poverty figure, but said that current levels still remain “a scar on our national conscience” and warned of consequences of “drastic cuts to support and services”.
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