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Low standards of child well-being linked to greater income inequality

Poorer children fare less well than richer ones in each society. But a recent UNICEF report detailing 40 indicators of child well-being, said children in the UK and the USA fared worse than in any of the other rich countries. The new research examines whether the damage is done by being poor, or by being poorer than others.

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