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Saturday 31 August 2013

Welfare reform – hitting the poorest places hardest

A report from the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research examines the variable impact of welfare reforms given that claimants are unevenly spread across Britain. It explains how much harder the reforms hit the poorer parts of Britain than more prosperous areas:
http://www.shu.ac.uk/research/cresr/sites/shu.ac.uk/files/hitting-poorest-places-hardest_0.pdf