Sunak on child poverty

Well the all the evidence in the research shows that the best way to ensure that children don’t grow up in poverty is to make sure they’re not growing up in a household where no one is working actually a child where uh neither of their parents are working are

Five times more likely to grow up in poverty no one wants to see that and that’s why it’s important that we create fantastic jobs for parents everywhere that we make it easier for those parents to get those jobs which is why we’re investing in child care in particular

The largest expansion of child care that we’ve ever seen and also to make sure those jobs are well paid national living wage is going up almost record amount in this spring already gone up a record amount in this past year and we’re now cutting people’s taxes £450 tax cut for

An average person in work kicking in tomorrow again all of that is going to help put more money into the pockets of hardworking families across the Northwest and the rest of the country

Rishi Sunak has claimed that children who grow up in a home where neither parent works are five times more likely to grow up in poverty.

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29 comments

  1. I appreciate the unique perspective this video brings to the table. It's refreshing and thought-provoking.👅

  2. Sounds great in theory, but where are the cutbacks on other policies? You can't pinch from peter to give to Paul

  4. Cuts to public transport dont help people get work.
    Cuts to education and the NHS dont make them more employable.
    He would not know the truth if he ever met it.

  5. Yeahh my council tax is 150£ a month for a one bedroom flat I’m renting in Lancaster (after my 25% student discount)
    That’s around 2k a year (ignoring all the other taxes, bills and human expenses)

  7. Er two of us are working and we are still poor. My kids are 18 and 20 and can't get jobs that even cover their rent

  10. Minimum wage is going up but no where near the increase in cost of living
    Most people dont have a living wage
    These are dishonest claims made in pre-election desperation

  12. The man is completely cluele, why aren’t people working, often they haven’t got the ability or have health issues. Even families who work live in poverty! While the elites stand on high, scoff, looking down their nose at the less able. People are stuck in a a poverty trap.

  13. The biggest indicator of poverty and most other issues children face is growing up in single parent households.

  18. Rent control?
    Building more council houses and getting rid of right to buy?
    Increase in minimum wage?
    Free higher education?

    No? Then you aren’t trying

    You aren’t trying when u give tax breaks to the rich you aren’t trying when you lower benefits, you aren’t trying when you do nothing about the rental market

  24. Is this idiot for real Do they really believe what they are saying NO they don’t
    MP’s wages now £50 per hour plus expenses
    How can people live without poverty at £12.50
    per hour If your lucky enough to get a job

  26. £450 average tax cut, even if that is median wage an extra £12 a week is nothing considering food, energy and rent inflation and high base rates.
    Sunak doesn't even qualify the value of childcare increases and does sweet nothing about job creation. 120,000 unfilled places in the NHS alone as there is no funding for them.
    As for minimum wage increases that is still below the rate of inflation.

  27. Companies are struggling to recruit staff, 7,000,000 on NHS waiting list with worsening conditions and risk losing their jobs or going on PIP. Meanwhile the government are increasing pressure for more sanctions. This is the government that seeks to punish sick people into work and expects the magic growth tree to deliver.
    Every investor knows you need to have money to make money yet this government doesn't even want to invest a penny and expects returns in the form of growth while they siphon off taxpayers money for pals.

  28. Techbro thinks he's the daddy. Does he know he's meant to be a prime minister not selling a ponzi scheme

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