An article published under the title ‘Labour saved 2m children from poverty’ has been removed at the request of Mike Brewer, professor of economics at the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex.
Mike Brewer’s findings on child poverty can be found in Chapter 5 of the Child Poverty Action Group Report Ending Child Poverty by 2020: An interim report
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32 Responses to “Apology”
Mike Brewer
Unfortunately, this blog is different in small but important ways from the one I submitted to LFF. It’s nonsense to say “if the current rate of child poverty reduction was continued, it would have been eliminated by 2027”, and no research paper of mine has ever said that. And it’s stretching the facts to say “Labour’s policies can be calculated as having saved 1.8 million children from poverty.” I urge you to read the original for my true opinions. Mike Brewer
Alex Braithwaite
RT @leftfootfwd: How Labour saved 2 million children from poverty http://t.co/Z85KKYIq
First Focus
Labour saved 2m children from poverty | Left Foot Forward http://t.co/CHdl1K42 #childpoverty
Anonymous
Is your original on your own blog perhaps?
David Kent
Labour saved 2m children from poverty | Left Foot Forward http://t.co/mZd76g7z