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LONDON: Hard-pressed Brits in their 20s are resorting to desperate and tawdry measures to make ends meet, including selling their hair, lapdancing and skipping meals. More than 2,000 young adults, including graduates, students and unemployed school leavers, were questioned in an the Institute of Commercial Management (ICM) poll. Nearly a quarter (22%) said they knew of someone who had gone without food because they could not afford three meals a day, the Daily Express reported. As many as 3% said they knew someone who had sold their hair. Some 10% had heard of someone who had got sucked into drug dealing to make extra money. Eight per cent said they knew another young person who had worked in the sex industry , either through prostitution , glamour modelling, escort work, lapdancing or stripping. A further 4% said they knew someone who had faked an insurance claim. “Our research has uncovered a generation of risk-takers , credit-hunters and those willing to go without the most fundamental basics of everyday life in order to save money ,” said director Michael Taggart MRM. “With wages falling and unemployment rising it is small wonder that some are taking desperate measures,” said Taggart.