Sentence examples for poverty target from inspiring English sources

3 25pm: Mudie asks about the government's child poverty target.

Hence Sure Start, the child trust fund and child poverty target".

The government must commit £4bn at the budget or risk the child poverty target in the UK being rendered meaningless".

Even with optimistic projections, the child relative poverty rate will still be double what the relative child poverty target is.

The Work and Pensions Secretary said he had opposed the relative income poverty target for over a decade.

To hit the relative child poverty target, parental employment rates would have to reach almost 100% – "far beyond what has ever been achieved anywhere in the world".

But for all these undoubted problems, I'd defend the existing poverty target, which I had a hand in designing in Whitehall about a decade ago.

Duncan Smith said he believed government strategy would bring child poverty down, but added that the existing child poverty target was "very discredited".

As the person (along with Tessa Jowell, and supported by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown) responsible for the introduction of Sure Start, the child trust fund and giving substantial support to the successful child anti-poverty target, I take deep offence at the Corbynistas and Momentum parading themselves as offering new thought and being more radical and progressive than those of us who held office.

Alan Milburn, chair of the government's commission on social mobility and child poverty, said last month that he did not "think there is a cat in hell's chance that the 2020 [child poverty] target will be hit.

Now is the time for us to learn that lesson and adopt a Child Poverty Target – for our nation's most vulnerable children.