At last, some new thinking on welfare reform
Thursday, September 17th, 2009 by Moussa Haddad Posted in Welfare reform, livelihoods, uk poverty | 5 Comments »Yesterday saw the launch of what the Centre for Social Justice describes as ‘the most far-reaching review of the UK welfare system in 60 years’. The report, Dynamic Benefits, sets out plans for a near cost-neutral rebalancing of the system, ...
Racism in a velvet glove…
Thursday, September 10th, 2009 by Heather Ureche Posted in attitudes, migrants | 1 Comment »If there was a group of people linked only by their ethnographic commonalities, a group who were marginalised, faced discrimination every day of their lives, had poor health, little access to normal education in their home countries, lived considerably shorter ...
Government slashes support to asylum seekers
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 by Marilyn Croser Posted in Uncategorized, asylum Seekers, refugees | 3 Comments »At the Refugee Council, we’ve launched a campaign calling on the government to revise its decision to cut support to asylum seekers to just over £5 per day. From October, single asylum seekers aged over 25 will receive just £35.13 ...
