Housing Benefit cuts will make people homeless and drive them away from jobs
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 by Richard Exell Posted in Welfare reform, child poverty, homelessness | No Comments »As specialist organisations have time to evaluate the likely effect of the Housing Benefit cuts, it is becoming clear that families will be forced into homelessness and child poverty will be exacerbated. The changes will force families to move away ...
A ‘Robin Hood’ Budget
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 by Ben Morgan Posted in Inequality, Welfare reform, child poverty, equality, fuel poverty, gender, labourrights, livelihoods | 2 Comments »The Chancellor Alistair Darling has said there will be "no giveaways" in tomorrow's budget. He has intimated caution despite the surprise likelihood that tax receipts will be higher than the same month last year, excelling the expectations set out in ...
Poverty, or The Giants Who Wouldn’t Die
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 by Moussa Haddad Posted in Welfare reform, attitudes, child poverty, livelihoods, uk poverty | 2 Comments »What single national policy change would most reduce poverty amongst working age people? That’s the question I’m being asked to address; but before I do so, it’s worth taking a bit of a reality check. There are 13.5 million people who ...
Why does the UK need Robin?
Thursday, March 4th, 2010 by Ben Morgan Posted in Inequality, Welfare reform, attitudes, child poverty, equality, gender, livelihoods, uk poverty | No Comments »Most people don’t know how much poverty there is in Britain. The ugly truth is much worse than most realise, making a Robin Hood Tax even more important. Structural impoverishment in Britain is rife. 13.5 million people live in poverty, that’s ...
New campaign to stop single parent stigma
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 by Kate Bell Posted in attitudes, child poverty, equality, gender, livelihoods | 3 Comments »Kate Bell is Director of Policy, Advice and Communications at the single parent charity Gingerbread. Gingerbread is the national organisation supporting single parents in England and Wales. It is 92 years this month since we were formed as the National ...
Single parenthood doesn’t equal social breakdown – further evidence
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 by Kate Bell Posted in Inequality, attitudes, child poverty, gender, uk poverty | 2 Comments »Kate Bell is Director of Policy, Advice and Communications at the single parent charity Gingerbread Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett’s book ‘The Spirit Level’ set out comprehensively to demonstrate that more equal societies are better for everyone. In their update, which ...
