Stirring statistics – misleading the public over foreign workers
Thursday, February 12th, 2009 by Krisnah Poinasamy Posted in Migrants | No Comments »The Times today leads with an article stating that the impartial Office of National Statistics has tried to embarrass Gordon Brown over his slogan, 'British jobs for British workers' by releasing figures for the employment of foreign-born workers in a ...
Anti poor prejudice in the press leads to bad public policy
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 by Joshua Fenton-Glynn Posted in Attitudes | 3 Comments »One area of Oxfam's work in the UK is on public attitudes to people in poverty and people on benefits. To some this seems a rather academic way of fighting poverty, rather than directly dealing with its effects. However the ...
Who’s scrounging?
Monday, February 9th, 2009 by Clare Cochrane Posted in Attitudes | No Comments »There's a nasty myth going around (and it's been going around for ages) that people experiencing poverty in the UK are scroungers, freeloaders, getting away with living off all the hardworking tax payers. But despite what the tabloids would have ...
Morecambe Bay: five years on, abuse of migrant workers continues
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 by Krisnah Poinasamy Posted in Labour rights | No Comments »Five years to the day after the tragic death of 23 Chinese cockle pickers in Morecambe Bay, Krisnah Poinasamy reflects on what has changed. As current events ask us to consider the place of migrants in our economy, with wildcat strikes ...
