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...ent on to assert that only government policy can reduce it. During the debate today, Leanne Wood AM said: "While New Labour at a UK level can claim some success in tackling poverty, the situation in Wales continues to be pretty dire. In Wales, we have the highest child poverty in the UK, the highest teenage pregnancy in Europe and a youth unemployment rate of 28.6%. On a UK level, 1/2 million children have been lifted out of poverty, Save the Children say that 1 million children are living in severe and persistent poverty. It has been easier to lift those children, who are just below the poverty line, than it has been to affect vulnerable or disadvantaged children who fall way below it. The UK government's policy for dealing with poverty has been attacked from a wide variety of critics, including its own friends. From Anthony Gibbons to the IPPR - ...