John Swinney is now Scotland’s seventh First Minister. He is also the sixth first minister to have been, at the time of his swearing in, one of…
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Prior to Monday, the Scottish Government target for reducing child poverty was to get it below 18% by the end of the financial year last month and to below 10% by 2030. Swinney has pledged not to meet and exceed that target , nor to meet or exceed EU norms , but to reduce child poverty to 0%. Finding an extra £2bn from where Scotland currently is would be quite the challenge but it is doable. Common Weal policies like Council Tax reform and a Land Tax could get us about half of the way there. Proposals from the STUC could reach more of the rest. And making the changes suggested above would lead to a generally wealthier and more equal country which would almost certainly find the rest.
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