Comment on child poverty

I read a newspaper report recently (probably the Guardian), discussing ways in which child poverty could be eradicated. The report concluded that a poor family in which only one parent was at work, the earnings of this parent were insufficient to raise the family out of poverty. The reasonable solution to this problem, as far as I am concerned, would be to raise the income of the single working parent. Oh no! Such a solution is too simple and too sensible. So the "obvious" solution in the report was to suggest that both parents should work. I thought that this was April 1st in September. I hope the report is a joke and does not warrant serious comment

Walter V