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The Independent View: Why the CSJ are wrong on child poverty

By Rys Farthing | Thu 31st May 2012 - 1:24 pm

While it is true that poverty is often associated with a range of other Bad Things, from stressed out families to poor grades at school and that causation can work both ways, this does not mean that they are the exact same problems.

But when the CSJ proposed new measures of child poverty, they induced exactly this sort of confusion. Below are just two examples:

1. Unstable family structure.

The CSJ suggests that one of the new measures of child poverty should be the percentage of children growing up in married households. However, many rich families get divorced, as do many poor families. Whether …

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Posted in The Independent View | Tagged child poverty and csj | 10 Comments

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