JRF: Dramatic increase in 'very deep poverty' sees nearly half a million Scots facing profound hardship

The number of people in Scotland living in very deep poverty has increased dramatically in the last 20 years despite more people, particularly children and pensioners, being pulled out of poverty overall, new JRF research has found.

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