So our ambition is - by the end of the next decade - child poverty reduced by half - on our way to ending child poverty within twenty years... Poverty here is defined as having net household income below 60% of the median income, after housing cost. ... The reason that overall poverty doesn't fall so much is that poverty rises among children in working households. ... Raising these working poor children out of poverty may not be such an impossible feat since many of them are likely to be quite close to the poverty line. ... Child poverty is a scare on Britain's soul. ...

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A poverty line is set, and this line is an average income amount that is set to show how much it would cost to support a given family. The poverty line in this example for a four-person family is $20,000 a year. ... It's her laziness that keeps her family in poverty. ... The cause of poverty is not a limit on jobs or money. ...

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Since 1996, more mothers are working, welfare caseloads have dropped, and poverty rates declined. ... Although our welfare system has helped some families get above the poverty line, the assistance our country provides in comparison to other countries is sparse. For example, France and the U.S. would both have about 25 percent of child poverty rates without government assistance. In France, the child poverty rate is only 6.5 after government assistance - in the U.S. it is 21 percent (Post, J. ... The upper and middle classes in America should be the classes that help individuals rise out of...

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