More than one-third (37 per cent) of all children in Northern Ireland now live in a low-income household, Government statistics published last week have revealed. According to the statistics, which compared changes in the characteristics of people living in low-income households in the province between 1990-94 and 1999-2002, almost half of all the children who live in low-income households there now live in single-parent families. The children at highest risk (88 per cent) of being in a low-income household lived in single-parent families without full-time work, and the areas with the highest number - 40 per cent - of low-income households are in the west and south of Northern Ireland.
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