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March 2006
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Slow growth in average income but large fall in pensioner poverty
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Slow growth in average living standards, but a rapid fall in pensioner poverty, are amongst the findings revealed in a new report published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, which analyses the latest official low income statistics published by the Department for Work and Pensions last week. The report also examines why child poverty has fallen under Labour, and why it did not fall enough for the child poverty targets for 2004/05 to be met.

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