Trends in Child Poverty Using the British Government’s Three Official Measures, 1997 to 2008
"If we look at Britain’s progress using its second official measure, an absolute poverty line—measured as the share of children below 60 percent of the median income in 1998–1999, with the poverty line indexed only for inflation, as it is in the United States—we see a very substantial reduction in child poverty, from a rate of 26 percent of children in 1998–1999 to a rate of 13 percent in 2007–2008, a remarkable reduction of 50 percent from the 1998–1999 rate and a fall from 3.4 million poor children to 1.7 million."—p. 119, Britain's War on Poverty