Britain leads in war on poverty, according to US academic, By Randeep Ramesh, March 24, 2010, The Guardian: “Britain’s “war on poverty” has been one of the government’s success stories, eclipsing the achievements of the United States and European neighbours, according to a year-long study by a US academic. Despite claims that Britain is ‘broken’, a book released today in New York highlights that by most measures things have improved for more than a decade. Jane Waldfogel, professor of social work at Columbia University, spent a year examining Labour’s record and found it had turned the tide of child poverty in a way that was ‘larger and more sustained than in the United States’. Her book, Britain’s War on ÂPoverty, shows that the number of children in ‘absolute poverty’ had fallen by 1.7 million since 1999. Latest figures show 13.4% of British children remained in ‘absolute poverty’ whereas in the US the figure was approaching 20%…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty