‘Hitting the poorest places hardest: The local and regional impact of welfare reform’ was published by the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR) at Sheffield Hallam University in April 2013.
The report, by Christina Beatty and Steve Fothergill’ finds that ‘the worst-hit local authority areas lose around four times as much, per adult of working age, as the authorities least affected by the reforms’.
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