Add to ORKGThe Government has set ambitious targets for reducing the number of children grwing up in poverty and has pledged to eradicate child poverty by 2020. Its latest plans for doing this are set out in the March 2008 publication Ending child poverty: everybody's business (HM Treasury, 2008a). Taken together, there are 900,000 children in poverty from two-parent families where one adult works full- or part-time, and the other does not work at all. this accounts for 33 per cent of children in poverty. The evidence suggests that these figures could be reduced by encouraging potential second earners into work; within couple families where one parent works full-time and the other does not work, 20 per cent of children are in poverty. Where the sec...
In 1999, one in four British children lived in poverty—the third highest child poverty rate among in...
Thousands of single parent families have been pushed into poverty after having their payments reduce...
U.S. welfare reforms, whether promoting work first or human capital development, have had in common ...
Nearly 40 percent of American children live in families with incomes below 200 percent of the federa...
Poverty is a lifestyle choice, according to government rhetoric. And although research suggests othe...
As unemployment continues to rise to near-record levels, the reductions in child poverty seen under ...
Key points - The main reasons for these households moving into poverty were the birth of a child or ...
Child poverty is high on the government's agenda. In order to reduce the rate of low-income among ch...
Single parents disproportionately face a triple bind of inadequacies in resources, employment, and p...
Can the United States dramatically reduce the number of its children living in poverty? This article...
The problem of child labour is immense and has been growing. Wherever poverty exists, child labour t...
First time parent couples are more likely to be a dual income family now than ever before. 65 % of e...
The previous Labour government pledged to abolish child poverty and introduced a range of welfare re...
The United States has greater income inequality and higher child poverty than any other industrializ...
An overview and analysis of current policy approaches that support incomes of parents who are unable...
In 1999, one in four British children lived in poverty—the third highest child poverty rate among in...
Thousands of single parent families have been pushed into poverty after having their payments reduce...
U.S. welfare reforms, whether promoting work first or human capital development, have had in common ...
Nearly 40 percent of American children live in families with incomes below 200 percent of the federa...
Poverty is a lifestyle choice, according to government rhetoric. And although research suggests othe...
As unemployment continues to rise to near-record levels, the reductions in child poverty seen under ...
Key points - The main reasons for these households moving into poverty were the birth of a child or ...
Child poverty is high on the government's agenda. In order to reduce the rate of low-income among ch...
Single parents disproportionately face a triple bind of inadequacies in resources, employment, and p...
Can the United States dramatically reduce the number of its children living in poverty? This article...
The problem of child labour is immense and has been growing. Wherever poverty exists, child labour t...
First time parent couples are more likely to be a dual income family now than ever before. 65 % of e...
The previous Labour government pledged to abolish child poverty and introduced a range of welfare re...
The United States has greater income inequality and higher child poverty than any other industrializ...
An overview and analysis of current policy approaches that support incomes of parents who are unable...
In 1999, one in four British children lived in poverty—the third highest child poverty rate among in...
Thousands of single parent families have been pushed into poverty after having their payments reduce...
U.S. welfare reforms, whether promoting work first or human capital development, have had in common ...