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Cycles of disadvantage

Jo Blanden and Stephen Gibbons


More than a quarter of Britain's children are growing up in poverty. New research by Jo Blanden and Steve Gibbons measures the extent to which children's experience of relative financial hardship increases their chances of being poor in adulthood - and whether that 'persistence' of poverty across generations has got worse.


June 2006     Paper Number CEPCP205

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