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Budget did not go far enough to fix child poverty

OPINION: Last Saturday I took part in a Liveable Incomes march in a chi-chi suburb – and drivers in BMWs genuinely clapped and cheered us on. In general, all of us – even Beamer drivers – want to know that our whole “team of 5 million” (TM) have enough to live on. And yet currently, one in five children live with the toxic stress and long-term health and educational effects of food insecurity. Parents cry when interviewed about bringing up their children on inadequate income support: they talk of hopelessness, despair, hunger, existing not living. So for those parents and their children, here is the story of the Budget in three movie genres: the much-hyped would-be blockbuster, the buried romantic drama, and the creeping horror.

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