More than a million households totalling 2.4 million people were destitute in the UK at some point over the course of 2019, the research, published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), concluded. The sobering data marks a 35 percent rise in impoverished households compared with 2017. Some 550,000 children were …
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