Press Release
ATL Comment On Government Measures To Tackle Child Poverty
23 June 2008
Commenting on Government plans to tackle child poverty, Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), said:
“Only a major change of attitude amongst all our politicians will rescue millions of children from misery.
“The Government acts like a caring but incompetent doctor, dealing with the symptoms not the disease. It knows lack of work is the main cause of poverty, but will not take action to create jobs.
“It knows minimum wage pay is poverty pay, and it knows the benefits system is so complicated that many claimants just give up.
“Politicians say there is no alternative to the market - but why do we have the most unequal society in western Europe?”
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