'A select few in our society possess wealth beyond any of our comprehension, yet figures released this week show that one in four children live in poverty.' | PaulJSweeney wrote ✍️
Child poverty; the starkest indicator of a failed public policy landscape and political indifference.
Those horrifying figures are a damning indictment of what happens when society forgets about the most vulnerable, or worse, when they become an easy target to blame for our collective woes. That callous social engineering has resulted in a poverty rate of 42% for children living in families where there are three or more children compared to 23% and 22% among children in families with one or two children, respectively.
The Scottish Government is far from blameless in the face of this crisis, with powers to create new or enhance any existing social security benefit, but the reality is while they could and should mitigate the worst vestiges of Tory austerity, we must get rid of the root cause itself: the Tories. Our country is at a crossroads and our society is teetering on the brink of economic and social collapse. The social contract that binds us all should see systemic problems like child poverty as a national mission that requires collective action.And that price extends way beyond the headline percentage figures – it impacts on the educational attainment of our young people, on the life chances of generations to come and on the future economic prosperity of our country.
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