{"id":160438,"date":"2015-06-21T19:20:31","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T19:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=160438"},"modified":"2015-06-21T19:24:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T19:24:16","slug":"uks-child-poverty-rate-heading-towards-largest-hike-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/uks-child-poverty-rate-heading-towards-largest-hike-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"UK&#8217;s child poverty rate heading towards largest hike: Experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p>Child poverty rate in Britain is reportedly heading towards its largest increase in a generation, reversing over a decade of progress that began in the late 1990s, leading independent experts say.<\/p>\n<p>The bleak projection emerged Saturday just before the release of government statistics that are expected to show a clear rise in child poverty for the first time since the beginning of the current decade, British daily <em>Guardian<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The development also comes as Chancellor of the Exchequer<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>George Osborne as well as Work and Pensions Minister Lain Duncan Smith declared their consensus on\u00a0a plan to further cut the government\u2019s annual benefits spending by \u00a312 billion.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the two vowed in a joint letter to attack the \u201cdamaging culture of welfare dependency,\u201d stating that it would take \u201ca decade\u201d or more to return the welfare budget to what they described as \u201csanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/06\/21\/416804\/Europe-Britain-child-poverty-biggest-rise-independent-experts-Tory-government-austerity-measures-benefits-cuts\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Child poverty rate in Britain is reportedly heading towards its largest increase in a generation, reversing over a decade of progress that began in the late 1990s, leading independent experts say. The bleak projection emerged Saturday just before the release of government statistics that are expected to show a clear rise in child poverty for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":160439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-160438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}