This week in the United Kingdom a new bill is up for voting in the parliament, the Child Poverty Act. Great Britain's bill that may pass into national legislation today ambitiously promises to end child poverty by 2020. A previous promise to halve child poverty by 2010 failed miserably, so the government has decided to step up its programs and taxes to ensure that it reaches its goal by 2020.
Programs and laws such as this are happening in the United Kingdom, and they need to be happening here. Now that health care has gone through, Obama needs to concentrate on his big 'Jobs Bill' that he talked about in the state of the union address. Hopefully this will happen sooner rather than later so we can, in this case, do things like the UK.
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