Tories push kids into poverty; Labour says "give up"
Share prices are going up. Profits are increasing. Top bosses' pay is soaring. And child poverty is rising almost as fast. According to a new report from the conservative Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS): "Tax and benefit reforms introduced since April 2010 can account for almost all of the increase in child poverty projected over the next few years using the absolute low-income measure; using the relative low-income measure, child poverty would actually have fallen in the absence of reforms as a result of falls in median income". Coalition government policies will continue to drive up child...