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Food poverty hits 18% of UK

Posted by seumasach on July 8, 2013

[This crisis is the result of rampant inflation whose roots lie ultimately in money printing(QE). We badly need a realistic assessment of inflation so that wages, benefits and pensions can be indexed.]

Government urged to act as food poverty hits 18% of UK

Telegraph

30th June, 2013

An estimated 18 per cent of the country were forced to skip meals, ask friends or family for food, rely on a food bank or go without so their kids could eat in the past year.

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