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The New Policy Institute produced its 2008 edition of indicators of poverty and social exclusion in Scotland, providing a comprehensive analysis of trends and differences between groups. Based on the latest available data, its starting point is that, while child and pensioner poverty in Scotland has fallen over the last decade, poverty among working age adults has remained the same.

free download of the report can be found at www.jrf.org.uk and www.poverty.org.uk