Inner City Pressure: Voices of low income working families on the complex challenges they face

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Key findings

35%

of children in inner London are in poverty.

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Influx

of well paid, young professionals raises the average local income, masking poorer households in the data.

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32%

of children in London are materially deprived, compared to 22 per cent in the rest of England.

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A new report by 4in10 highlights the voices of low income working families in inner London on the complex challenges they face.

Despite working, these families are struggling to meet the cost of living in inner London, where 35% of children are in poverty, seven percentage points more than in outer London. 4in10 are calling on the Mayor to use his strategy for London as an opportunity to help low income parents be able to provide a better life for their families. The research was funded by Trust for London and City Bridge Trust.

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