Now the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has updated the MIS based on very wide consultation with low income people – many statutory benefits and incomes are well below the minimum required for healthy and safe living – in particular the health of children depends on the standard of nutrition of mothers from puberty onward – inadequate incomes generate massive lifetime costs for the NHS and impact on educational standards and crime levels

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