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Regional Employment And Wage Gaps Have Narrowed But Inequalities Prove Deeply Entrenched As Child Poverty Gaps Widen Further

Progress has been made in narrowing some geographic economic gaps, but the same areas have tended to either lag behind or prosper that did so thirty years ago, and spatial disparities in child poverty have widened since 2014-15 - according to new Resolution Foundation analysis published on Tuesday 6 August 2024. The report, Uneven ground, uses a range of economic outcomes to assess the state of geographic inequality facing the new Government. [Read Full Article]