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New research shows that public attitudes to poverty and welfare are hardening

The research [conducted by NatCen Social Research on behalf of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation] explored public attidtudes to welfare and poverty over the past three decades.

The report identified a trend in which the public has become increasingly likely to say that individual characteristics rather than societal issues cause poverty. For example:

Slightly more positively however, people today do acknowledge the "significant" levels of child poverty and three quarters of resondents viewed it as a big responsibility for central government and 53% also though it was an issue for local government.