More than a third of the poorest children do not have the internet at home and a similar number do not have a computer, official figures suggest.

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Mr Murray calculates that fewer than 30% of children in the poorest third of white America live with both parents by the time their mother turns 40.

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The Tories had promised before the general election to keep the funds for the poorest third of families and for parents with disabled children, but are now going back on this promise, he told MPs.

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And research from the Brookings Institution found that it can be very difficult for children of single parents to rise up out of poverty: 58% children raised in the poorest third of income levels who lived with two parents rose up, while only 44% of children of single parents were able to.

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Like most of their fellows across the city, they are migrants from Bihar, India's poorest and third-most populous state.

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Researchers estimate that in China, where smoking rates are rising quickly, a 10% increase in cigarette tax would cut consumption by 5% and increase revenues by 5%, enough to finance essential health care for a third of China's poorest 100m people.

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In fact, a UNICEF analysis illustrated that across 31 countries in sub-Saharan Africa less than a third of children in the poorest 20 percent of the population receive appropriate treatment for diarrhoea, compared to almost half of children in the wealthiest 20 percent.

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Specifically, England's passing has been poorest in the attacking third of the field, where its strikers have made a succession of misplaced passes.

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Third, rising incomes in the poorest ranks spur greater innovations: entrepreneurs find markets with greater purchasing power, larger markets give greater economies of scale for producers, and production facilities search for labor saving innovations.

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While most of the poorest are nowadays covered by government cash-transfer programmes, those in the third to the fifth deciles of income distribution are now at risk of falling into poverty, Mr Levy says.

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