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child poverty
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Severe child poverty affects 200k in Catalonia, says Save the Children
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Opposition parties ask the Catalan Government for further efforts to fight poverty
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The Catalan Society of Paediatrics denies that children in Catalonia suffer from food deprivation due to economic reasons
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50,000 children suffer from food deprivation in Catalonia, according to the Catalan Ombudsman
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Child poverty in Catalonia increased from 18.5% to 23.8% between 2008 to 2010
Unicef has released a study revealing that children and youngsters are some of the most vulnerable people hit by the crisis. The study stresses that they are the future of any society. Between 2008 and 2010, child poverty in Catalonia increased by more than 5 percentage points. In Spain as a whole, child poverty jumped from 24% to 26.2% in the same period.