Friday, 5 December 2008

The child poverty target

Gordon Brown has said the promise to end child poverty by 2020 will be made legally binding. Lisa Harker, of the Institute for Public Policy Research, and Chris Grayling, shadow work and pensions secretary, discuss figures suggesting that interim targets will be missed by big margins.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7764000/7764218.stm