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The government has launched its consultation on better measures of child pov
The government has launched its consultation on better measures of child pov
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2024-09-18
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The government has launched its consultation on better measures of child poverty, but it really has to be asked, better for whom? This is a government that looks set to preside over a truly dramatic increase in child poverty. The Institute for Fiscal Studies projects that after a decade of steady reductions in child poverty rates, 300, 000 more children will be living in poverty in the UK by 2015. Big cuts to tax credits, a three-year freeze in child benefit, uprating out-of-work benefits using CPI rather than the more generous RPI—all will make vulnerable families poor over the course of this parliament.
So what does the government do about it? Rather than review its policies and ask how it can seek to fulfill its legal commitments under the Child Poverty Act 2010, it launches a consultation on the way that child poverty is measured.
Poverty is a complex phenomenon and no single indicator can fully capture the condition. The CPA 2010 recognizes this, urging governments to make progress against four specific measures: relative poverty, absolute poverty, material deprivation and persistent poverty. Alongside this, we also track numerous other indicators of child well-being in the UK such as educational achievement, health outcomes and subjective experience.
Both Iain Duncan Smith and David Laws sought to convince the audience at the launch of the consultation that the government was not in retreat from the income measures contained in the CPA 2010. But in truth, the consultation document is peppered with digs at the relative measure, suggesting that changes to this indicator do not tell us anything meaningful about " real" poverty.
The consultation also seeks to dilute the relevance of income by developing a "multidimensional indicator" of child poverty. This indicator will blend together measures of worklessness, unmanageable debt and family stability among others to produce a single headline number that can be tracked over time.
At best, the government is combining poverty with its many consequences. At worst, it is simply changing the yardstick against which they will be measured.
Consider, for example, the proposal that parental worklessness be a key defining feature of the new child poverty measure. Using current definitions, 60% of children living in poverty today have at least one parent in work. Any measure that insists poverty is about worklessness will simply airbrush these 1.4 million children out of the picture altogether.
Equally worryingly, the consultation insists that any new poverty measure must resonate with the public. The latest British Social Attitudes survey shows just how widespread negative views of vulnerable groups in society are, but also makes clear that much of this shift in public opinion has been caused by current and previous government policies.
So, should we expect better measures of child poverty as a result of the consultation? Not better for the children growing up in low-income families for sure. And given the broader costs to society of child poverty, not better for anyone else—except, perhaps, a government that we suspect may be trying to avoid being held to account. [br] What will NOT lead vulnerable families to poverty according to the first paragraph?
选项
A、Sharp decline in tax credits.
B、A three-year freeze in child benefit.
C、Increasing unemployment benefits.
D、The adoption of RPI instead of CPI.
答案
D
解析
细节题。文章第一段最后一句提到,税收抵免的大幅下降、三年儿童津贴的冻结、使用居民消费价格指数而不是更,“泛的零售物价指数作为提高失业救济金的依据——在本届议会任期内,这些都会使困难家庭陷入困境,[D]“使用零售物价指数而不是居民消费价格指数”与文意相反,所以为正确答案.[A]“税收抵免的大幅下降”、[B]“三年儿童津贴的冻结”和[C]“提高失业救济金”在文中均有提及,故排除。
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