What do journalism students know about poverty?
Friday, January 29th, 2010 by Oxfam UK Poverty Posted in Attitudes, UK poverty | No Comments »The UK Coalition Against Poverty have begun an excellent programme working with student journalists, introducing them to the realities of poverty in the UK and how to report on it. Eileen Devaney, UKCAP national coordinator, reflects on the experience so ...
How should the media portray poverty?
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 by Will Horwitz Posted in Attitudes, Inequality, Livelihoods, Migrants, UK poverty, Welfare reform | No Comments »Will Horwitz works on communications for East London Charity Community Links. He is also an alumnus of Oxfam's UK Poverty Programme. (Community Links are spending this week debating how the media portrays poverty). A couple of years ago a headline ...
Child poverty targets are diverting policymakers from the causes to the symptoms of poverty
Friday, January 22nd, 2010 by Neil O'Brien Posted in Child poverty, Inequality, UK poverty, Welfare reform | 2 Comments »By Neil O'Brien, Director of Policy Exchange. In the FT this morning Nick Timmins suggests that the Conservatives are considering widening the child poverty target into a wider set of indicators in order to get a more in-depth measure of poverty. The ...
Let’s make tax more fair
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 by Ben Morgan Posted in Citizen's income, Livelihoods, UK poverty, Welfare reform | No Comments »Voters want clarity on how they will be taxed, but they also need their leaders to get it right. Referring to the scheduled 0.5% increase in the rate of National Insurance (on top of an identical increase last year) during a ...
The quiet death rattle of social mobility
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 by Moussa Haddad Posted in Attitudes, Equality, Livelihoods, UK poverty | No Comments »An interesting article by Will Hutton in Sunday’s Observer adds to the slow trickle of discussion around social mobility, set off by Alan Milburn’s report on ‘access to the professions’. More often than not, it’s a debate that’s being seen ...
