Poverty has been rising in the UK since 2004 and is now at the same level as the start of the decade, a report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation says.
The group said that issues of unemployment and the repossession of homes had become more acute before the recession started.
It said long-term solutions were needed to reverse the poverty trend.
But the report also pointed to improvements over the last decade, such as a decreasing fear of crime.
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