article_snippet: Iain Duncan Smith introduction of universal credit and a £500 a week benefit cap have been heavily criticised by the Left and the poverty lobby which claim families have been impoverished.
article_snippet: A think tank founded by Mr Duncan Smith, the Centre for Social Justice, called yesterday for changes to the way child poverty is measured.
article_snippet: A think tank founded by Mr Duncan Smith, the Centre for Social Justice, called yesterday for changes to the way child poverty is measured said that narrow financial measures of poverty are meaningless and have no bearing on the realities of children's lives.
article_snippet: The poverty line, usually put at 60 per cent of average income, is 'unrealistic, narrow and naïve', A think tank founded by Mr Duncan Smith, the Centre for Social Justice, called yesterday for changes to the way child poverty is measured said.
article_snippet: Christian Guy, the centre's director, said: 'Despite some outstanding recent progress on job creation and social justice measures, the official child poverty targets don't help the Government to change the lives of the poorest children. '
article_snippet: Poverty is about more than money.
article_snippet: For too many families it is about addiction, worklessness, family breakdown, failing schools and debt traps.'
highlights_snippet: Iain Duncan Smith was criticised for introducing £500-a-week benefit cap .
  