Raising benefits in line with prices is the very least we can do
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011 by Moussa Haddad Posted in Benefits, Citizen's income, Cuts, Fairness, Fuel poverty, Livelihoods, Unemployment | No Comments »Last week, rumours abounded that the Treasury was considering increasing benefits by less than the rate of inflation. The inflation figure for September tends to be used each year as the reference point for raising benefit and pension levels in ...
My experience at the All Party Parliamentary Group on Poverty
Thursday, October 27th, 2011 by Antony Metcalfe Posted in Citizen's income, Cuts, Homelessness, Livelihoods, Unemployment, Young people | No Comments »Last Thursday (20th October) the inaugural annual lecture of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Poverty – chaired by Kate Green OBE MP – took place in the Houses of Parliament. The Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP, Secretary ...
How hungry do people in the UK have to be?
Friday, October 21st, 2011 by Lindsay Boswell Posted in Citizen's income, Livelihoods, Unemployment | 2 Comments »Food poverty has been hitting the headlines recently, as UK hunger spreads. At FareShare the charities we serve have seen a 40% increase in demand for food in the past year, with many reporting that as well as ...
The Magic Breakfast that keeps school kids from going hungry
Sunday, October 16th, 2011 by Mora McLagan Posted in Citizen's income, Debt, UKPP news | No Comments »Oxfam believes that everybody in the UK should have enough money to feed themselves and their families, whether they are in or out of work. That’s why I paid a visit last Friday to The Magic Breakfast club at Randal ...
We’re all in this together; but some of us are more in it together than others
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011 by Moussa Haddad Posted in Citizen's income, Cuts, Inequality, Livelihoods, UK poverty, Wellbeing | No Comments »Yesterday’s IFS report on what they call the Great Recession makes for depressing reading. In the years of recession itself, real (inflation-adjusted) incomes were somewhat protected by the previous government’s actions (as well as some curiosities around the interaction of ...
Unemployment in the 21st Century: is the welfare system fit for purpose?
Thursday, April 1st, 2010 by Jim Boyle Posted in Citizen's income, Livelihoods, Welfare reform | 1 Comment »Employment is important: for health, for relationships, and for the economy. When people previously unemployed find jobs, their mental health and well-being improves. In contrast, being unemployed for over six months causes health damage equivalent to smoking 200 cigarettes a ...
