Conspicuously poor?
Saturday, January 28th, 2012 by Katherine Trebeck Posted in Attitudes, Fairness, Inequality, Wellbeing | 5 Comments »In a society in which we often judge each other by superficial appearances, it seems individuals are denied empathy or support as 'poor' if they are still able to take care of their appearance. A friend of mine who has lived ...
Whose welfare state is it anyway?
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012 by Kenny McBride Posted in Benefits, Citizen's income, Corporate Social Responsibility, Fairness, Inequality, Livelihoods | 1 Comment »As the American presidential primary season gets underway, Ron Paul has received a great deal of attention for his libertarian approach to economics. In short, libertarian capitalism argues that any form of state intervention in economic matters distorts market forces and ...
Either we’re at war or all in it together – not both
Monday, January 16th, 2012 by Katherine Trebeck Posted in Corporate Social Responsibility, Fairness, Labour rights, Unemployment, Wellbeing | 4 Comments »Our Prime Minister has kicked off 2012 by announcing a pledge to half the amount of red-tape and calling health and safety laws a ‘monster’. This is part of a promise he made last year to wage ‘war’ on the ...
New video by the Fair Pay Network – please share!
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011 by Joana Martinho Posted in Citizen's income, Fairness, Labour rights, Livelihoods | No Comments »Take a look at the new Fair Pay Network video on in-work poverty, presented by Tony Robinson. Ed Miliband, Caroline Lucas and Polly Toynbee make the case for companies to start paying all employees a living wage. Please share (and @FairPayNetwork if ...
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 ...
The People’s Budget – our communities’ right to budget
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011 by Alan Thornton Posted in Cuts, Fairness, Wellbeing | No Comments »Thousands of people are involved in the tough decisions about spending priorities for 10-18% of the mainstream council budget. Which British city am I describing? Well I’m actually talking about Brazilian cities transformative experience of Participatory Budgeting. But it is this ...
