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The most commonly used measure of poverty is relative low income.<\/p>
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The latest statistics from the Households Below Average Income (HBAI) data series show that there are: 2.7 million children, 5.7 million working-age adults, and 2.1 million pensioners in relative low income in the United Kingdom on a \u2018before housing costs\u2019 (BHC) basis.<\/p>
Analysis of the HBAI data shows that there are 2.1 million families in relative low income BHC where at least one adult member works at least part-time.<\/p>
This Government is committed to tackling the root causes of poverty, thereby preventing the intergenerational cycle of disadvantage.<\/p>
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This is why we repealed the income-related targets set out in the Child Poverty Act 2010 and replaced them with statutory measures that drive action on parental worklessness and children\u2019s educational attainment \u2013 the two areas that we know can make the biggest difference to disadvantaged children, now and in the future.<\/p>
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The Department for Work and Pensions published Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families in April 2017. Here we set out further non-statutory indicators on a wider set of parental disadvantage and children\u2019s outcomes, which will drive collective action on areas that matter in tackling disadvantage.<\/p>
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