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Hello and welcome to more or less the program that straightens the tie of statistics and brushes the fluff off the shoulder of numbers.

This week we examine a way of producing school league tables that has even the math teachers confused.

We scrutinise the economics of the Royal Wedding,

and we ask whether it's possible to make your grass six times greener.

But first, last week the Trades Union Congress, the TUC,

made headlines with a new report it had published claiming ever more children from working families are living in poverty.

Here's the TUC's head of equality, Nicholas Smith, speaking on the today programme. Two and three children in this country who are in poverty are now in households who are working.

That's 3.1 million children with parents in work who are in poverty and increase of

1 million over the last decade.

The cause for this, they said, was government cuts.

The analysis shows very clearly that the main driver of this increase has been cuts to in-work benefits for households who are working hard and

also very substantial public sector wage restraint.

So more and more children from working families living in poverty and benefit cuts are to blame.

Well we had quite a few emails from listeners about this claim, including one from Toby Mason. Toby wanted to know whether this rise in children from working families growing up in poverty is in part due to the current record levels of employment.

After all, if more people are working... current record levels of employment.

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