Anti-poverty campaign without seeking end to ecologically hostile money is no campaign..Ecologically hostile usurious money is responsible for promotion of ecologically hostile habitats that are at best inequitable and based on fossil fuel based non-renewable resource based services and utilities..Even the campaigns such as GCAP www.whiteband.org and UN supported millennium campaign are not talking about this though their leaders are enjoying ecologically hostile travels and conference in various capitals of exploiters and looters.. Dr.Muhammad Mukhtar Alam
From: robert searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [GJM] New Anti-Poverty Campaign gets Public Support........ To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, 11 September, 2008, 2:16 PM Maybe of interest. R.Searle New anti-poverty campaign gets public support Reuters - Thursday, September 11 12:03 am LONDON (Reuters) - Political parties should do more to tackle poverty, a new anti-poverty umbrella group said on Thursday after a survey showing public support for such a campaign. Get Fair, grouping more than 50 charities and faith groups, urged politicians to act on promises to cut poverty -- or potentially lose votes. The survey, by YouGov, showed 36 percent of the 2,000 people questioned believed government intervention was key to helping the country's poorest, and 51 percent would be more tempted to vote for a party that acted to do so. Nearly three-quarters believed one of the most effective ways was to improve training for people living on the breadline. "These results send a clear warning that voters want and expect our political parties to set out exactly how they will address poverty so that we have a real social safety net," Fran Beckett, chair of Get Fair, said in a statement." Get Fair Vice-Chair Vanessa Stanislas, added: "The UK is becoming richer but not fairer. "The majority of British people want a fairer society and this poll suggests that they will reward the political party which has the confidence to tackle poverty." Improving conditions for the poor would require about 4 billion pounds per year through extra benefits and tax credits. One in five of the population of 13 million people live below the poverty line, while 30 percent of children are categorised as poor, Get Fair said. It calls on the government to deliver on its existing commitment to end child poverty by 2020, and urged other parties to do so, especially as the impact of soaring fuel bills, higher mortgage payments and rising food prices had begun to kick in. "It is the poorest who are hit hardest," Get Fair said. "Poverty is closer than most people think." Get Fair members include Shelter, the Refugee Council, YWCA, Save the Children, Help the Aged, Oxfam and voluntary and community groups. Help the Aged said 822 pensioners are forced into poverty on average each day. Shelter Chief Executive Adam Sampson said the poll acts as a "wake up call, as it shows people of all ages, regions and social classes want something done about poverty and are prepared to vote with their feet". (Reporting by Avril Ormsby; Editing by)
