Will Child Poverty Ever Go Away?

Targets to cut child poverty in Scotland voted through.

SCOTTISH ministers have pledged to ensure that less ten per cent of children will be living in poverty by 2030

Legislation passed unanimously at Holyrood yesterday will make Scotland the only part of the UK with statutory targets to cut child poverty. MSPs debated and voted on the Scottish government's Child Poverty Bill at the final stage of its journey through parliament.

Currently more than one in five (-220,000-) children live in poverty north of the border. The Bill requires ministers to ensure that, by 2030 less than ten per cent of children are in relative poverty, meaning those living in a home earning below 60 per cent of the 2010/11 national median income.

SNP MSP George Adam said the Bill could be "transformational for children across the country."

The Child Poverty Action Group in Scotland said it was a hugely welcome step.

Socialists can't say just exactly how things will be run in a socialist world, outside of saying the working class will recognise that common ownership of the means of production will eliminate many of the daily problems. 

The article above is certainly one of them. It was in the Metro on the 9^th of November. The article demonstrates "The Child Poverty Action Group in Scotland said it was a hugely welcome step." and SNP MSP George Adam said the Bill could be "transformational for children across the country." 

In other words, child poverty will always be around for many years yet.

In the Scottish Referendum, on Independence. I remember Tommy Sheridan pointing out that Norway being an independent country only had 5% child poverty against the 12% child poverty in Scotland. Norway at that time had billions of Euros surplus and yet as Tommy says it still had child poverty. Even in an independent Scotland the likelihood of child poverty remaining is certain.

 The only transformation that will eliminate child poverty is socialism.