Sentences with phrase «cut child poverty»

She said that government action since 2007 would cut child poverty by 500,000 but had yet to show up in the DWP data.

Lone parents on benefits could be forced to look for work earlier under new government plans intended to cut child poverty.

Not exact matches

They quickly pointed out the faults in Clark's boasts about her gender equitable government, which cut essential services women need: child care, family and poverty legal services, education, healthcare, the list goes on.

By contrast to the so called middle - class tax cut which favours the more affluent, the CCB will have a positive impact upon the lamentably high rate of child poverty in Canada (which stood at 16.5 % in 2013), and will promote greater income equality among families with children.

The Philippine organizers of the Global March mention following: widespread poverty and social inequality resulting in the erosion of the family's capacity to nurture and protect children, the rise of informal economy requiring simple skills and technologies, globalization of capitalism where underdeveloped nations provide the rich with cheap labor, disrupted family patterns due to migration, AIDS, etc. and inadequate basic services from government, including education, due to cut of the state budget of non-profit sectors to follow structural adjustment programme dictated by the IMF and the World Bank.

Since 1990, the world has cut in half maternal and child deaths, infectious diseases, and poverty as well as turned the tide on HIV / AIDS.

On its website it said: «While child poverty in Scotland soars as a result of brutal Tory cuts, Westminster is happy to waste # 130billion on renewing and maintaining Trident — money which should be spent on making our country a better place to live.

Athletes» out - of - wedlock kids can end up in poverty if their fathers are cut or retire before the children turn 18.

Governments had promised to eradicate extreme poverty, provide universal primary education, push for gender equality, cut child deaths and combat diseases.

This rhetoric has been used to justify devastating welfare cuts - including caps on in - work benefits and cuts to disability support - which in turn have led to a rise in food bank use, homelessness, and child poverty.

You were aware that 72 % of these cuts will be paid for by women0 - and they will pay with their homes, their jobs, their futures, and their poverty = as well as their childrens outcomes?

Cuts that increase child poverty will cost us more in the long run.

3.7 million children live in poverty in the UK today and yet the Chancellor pledges to continue to cut vital financial support for families.

And, independent forecasts show that close to one million more children will be in poverty by 2020 as a result of real terms cuts to in work tax credits and other benefits.

But looking at scale of the cuts made to it since then, it's clear the Universal Credit we have today - the system families will rely on - will be creating, not cutting, child poverty.

The government has revealed in answer to a parliamentary question that 200,000 children will be pushed into relative income poverty by its bill to cut social security benefits and tax credits in real terms.

DB: «The 50 councils worst affected by government cuts will face a reduction of # 160 per head on average, despite the fact that about a third of their children already live in poverty.»

«Over three million children in the UK live in poverty, a key inhibitor to educational progress, and experience every day the harsh realities of cuts to welfare, specialist services and support, education grants and the wider effects of the recession.

Within the expected tax cuts, all those living in poverty must be helped including adults without children.

«What do the Conservatives stand for when they criticise Labour's child poverty record, but admit that benefits and pensions will bear the full brunt of their cuts?»

What you have to ask yourself right now is whether you are prepared to sacrifice lives - the lives of children being raised in poverty, the lives of patients being left to die on trolleys in hospital corridors, the lives of disabled people who are cut off and abandoned to their fates, the lives of the elderly left shivering at home or shamefully neglected in profit - driven care homes.

[26] At the time, many leftists were leaving in disgust at the Labour government's support for the U.S. in the Vietnam War, cuts to the National Health Service budget, and restrictions on trade unions; some joined far - left parties like the International Socialists or the Socialist Labour League, or single - issue groups like the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Child Poverty Action Group.

«Yet the Government continues to adversely affect the life chances of millions of children and young people with potential cuts to tax credits and a failure to tackle poverty.

The conference, and the new report, is to aid local authorities in developing their local child poverty strategies to meet the need generated by social security cuts and reforms, and to look at the opportunities they have to make progress on poverty prevention and reduction.

The local authority estimates, produced by Donald Hirsch of Loughborough University, are contained in a new report on how local authorities are trying to tackle child poverty at a time of social security cuts and upheaval.

Every council is required by law to have a local child poverty strategy, and the good news is that reducing child poverty benefits everyone by cutting the costs to local authority services and boosting the local economy through improved skills and qualifications for school leavers.

«Everything Britain stands for - hard work, independence of spirit, savings and compassion for children - is about to be undermined by George Osborne's tax credit cuts that will plunge almost another million families into poverty.»

Child poverty was cut back at a scale and pace which was simply better than any other industrial nation during that period - even if Labour missed its 2010 interim target.

«If it is proposed that Labour MPs are being asked to vote for the government's plans to cut benefits to families, I am not willing to vote for policies that will push more children into poverty.

She has said that the Tory plans for cutting tax credits and abandoning the child poverty target do both and Labour should strongly oppose them.»

«If it is proposed that Labour MPs are being asked to vote for the government's plans to cut benefits to families I am not willing to vote for policies that will push more children in to poverty,» he said.

Whether you agree with the proposed cuts or not, it can not be right to ignore their impact on child poverty.

Frank Field, the Labour MP who has drawn up the Government's child poverty strategy, told The Times that the national network of Sure Start centres would be «decimated» by council cuts unless the Prime Minister intervenes immediately.

On Smith's watch, the government has been forced into U-turn on a number of hated reforms, including tax credit cuts, Personal Independence Payment cuts and scrapping the measurement of child poverty.

Intervening on Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith in the Commons, his Labour shadow, Helen Goodman asked: «Could you explain to the House why cutting tax credits for large families is a fair thing to do when it will be concentrated... on families where children are living in poverty, on Roman Catholic families, on Catholics from other minorities.

David Cameron's poverty adviser yesterday told the Government to «grow up» and get a grip on local authority spending cuts which threatened to «scupper the life chances» of poor children.

The main cheerleader for the Lib Dem tax cut today is Norman Tebbit, not child poverty charities; he is urging the Tories to adopt it.

Last month Unicef warned that the UK's spending cuts meant that more children would grow up in poverty, reversing Britain's more positive performance in the early years of the financial crisis.

«This budget, if enacted, would jeopardize our nation's educational, scientific and health enterprises and limit access to critically needed mental and behavioral health services,» said Antonio E. Puente, president of the American Psychological Society (APS) in Washington, D.C. «These cuts would disproportionately affect people living in poverty, people with serious mental illness and other disabilities, women, children, people living with HIV / AIDS, older adults, ethnic and racial minorities, immigrants, and members of the LGBTQ community.»

The joint survey by the NEU and the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) also reveals the extent to which schools are stepping in to fill the gaps left by the cuts to statutory services and voluntary and community organisations.

If reducing poverty and lifting student achievement are the goals, dollars would be better allocated by cutting the taxes on earned income paid by two - parent, working families with children.

However, the government is planning to introduce means testing for free school meals under universal credit, which The Children's Society warns will fail to reach one million children in poverty and will create a «cliff - edge» where many families would be better off taking a Children's Society warns will fail to reach one million children in poverty and will create a «cliff - edge» where many families would be better off taking a children in poverty and will create a «cliff - edge» where many families would be better off taking a pay cut.

Now that would mean cutting the children's poverty rate in half.

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Twenty - five percent of rural children live in poverty, and parents of some 3 million kids say they wish they could afford or get to after school programs — that's before the cuts he proposes.

Money for vital programs serving children in high poverty schools should never be cut based on a test that was not designed to be used for high stakes decisions.

· More Students Get Meals: Gives 115,000 more students access to free and reduced meals programs · Meal Program Process Easier: Cuts the paperwork and administrative hassle that goes along with providing free and reduced meals to students in high poverty areas based on census data · Meals for Foster Kids: Foster children are now automatically eligible in school meal programs · Meals for After School Programs: Expands USDA support of meal programs in at - risk after school programs

In the last few years, matters have gone from bad to worse: As poverty levels for children have grown to one in four nationwide, and the number of homeless children has doubled, states have been cutting funds for both education and social services.

I regret deeply that they ignore the compelling human issues facing American public education — like budget cuts that threaten kids» education, economic distress that causes real hardship for children and their families, and child poverty that is above 20 percent in the country and tragically still rising.

John P. Holdren, now President Obama's science adviser, wrote in «Science and Technology for Sustainable Well - Being» that when you measure human harm in years of life lost (e.g., a child cut down by disease loses decades; a grandmother dying of a stroke at 80 loses a few years), the major afflictions of poverty and affluence do us in at roughly equal rates.