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Parents targeted on child poverty

Source: BBC

London : United Kingdom | 2 months ago

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Ministers are concerned they will fail to meet their commitment to end child poverty by 2020 if only one parent in the poorest families has a job. Incentives to encourage the second parent to find work are being explored. But poverty campaigners warned that pushing both parents into work could harm the...

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Parents targeted on child poverty

News Source: BBC | 2 months ago

Ministers are concerned they will fail to meet their commitment to end child poverty by 2020 if only one parent in the poorest families has a job. Incentives to encourage the second parent to find work are being explored. But poverty campaigners...
Child poverty reduced if both parents go to work

News Source: The Observer | 2 months ago

Conceding that it was now unlikely New Labour 's pledge to halve the number of children living in poverty by 2010 would be met, the financial secretary, Stephen Timms, said the state of the economy had forced the government to rethink how best to...