Brewer, Mike; Gregg, Paul - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2002
that the reformed UK welfare support system, taxes and benefits, for children is more generous to low-income families with …In 1997 the new Labour government in the UK inherited a situation where nearly one in 5 children lived in a household … where no adult worked and around one in 3 lived in relative poverty. Children had replaced pensioners as the poorest group …