Child poverty costs taxpayer £40bn - The Observer 28th October 2007

Child poverty is costing British taxpayers more than £40bn a year through crime, ill-health and low employment, according to new research by the children's charity Barnardo's. Tomorrow, the charity will call for a UK commission on child poverty to set out policies and investment to hit government targets to halve child poverty by 2010 and eradicate it by 2020.

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