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media type="custom" key="9103472" align="right" All three major political parties in the United Kingdom have realized that there is a problem with poverty in their country, and that something has to be done. There are plans and statements to reduce poverty, and especially child poverty. In 1999 a year when almost one of three children were experiencing poverty there were decided to stop child poverty. Tony Blair, the prime minister from the Labour Party, said that he would reduce child poverty with 25 percent before 2005, 50 percent before 2010 and that it would be eliminated before 2020. In 2005 it was clear that there were results and that child poverty was decreasing, but Blair did not reach his goal of reducing the 25 percent (1) After several years of decreasing the numbers of people living in poverty, there was an increase of 1.5 million people in a four year period from 2005 to 2009.(2) There is still much to be done before Britain has solved the poverty problems.

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