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Minister failing to act to reduce poverty - report

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More than one million people in Scotland in poverty, including 240,000 children.

The proportion living in "very deep poverty" has surged to 40% of all families in Scotland .

JRF said families were being "locked into poverty" by a "failing" social security system.

UK government said it had set up a taskforce to tackle child poverty with reforms on the way.

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83

Informative language

86

Neutral language

27

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

56

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not offensive

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not hateful

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short-lived

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1

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