Budget 2010: Cutting Benefits by Stealth
Thursday, June 24th, 2010 by Moussa Haddad Posted in Inequality, Welfare reform, homelessness, livelihoods | 4 Comments »The headline announcements were bad enough. Largely due to the increase in the highly regressive VAT, it is, as the IFS put it, ‘likely that the overall impact of [the Budget’s taxation] measures was regressive’. George Osborne’s claims that this ...
Keep remembering that we have a choice in how we get out of this mess
Monday, June 14th, 2010 by Moussa Haddad Posted in Inequality, Welfare reform, equality, livelihoods | No Comments »Writing in Saturday’s Guardian, Polly Toynbee threw an interesting perspective on what promises to be the biggest debate in politics over the next few years – deficit reduction. So far, the arguments have largely been about the ‘when’ – which ...
Our nation in a state?
Friday, June 4th, 2010 by Sue Smith Posted in Inequality, Welfare reform, attitudes, equality, gender | 1 Comment »The ‘State of the nation report’ published last week by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is a long overdue attempt by the government itself to layout the full dimensions of poverty in the UK. The department says it ...
Tights, Camera, Action
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010 by Ben Morgan Posted in Inequality | No Comments »Are you a film maker? Do you have a story to tell about poverty in the UK? Would you like our government to use the proceeds from a tax on banks to invest in reducing poverty? If you just said 'yes' ...
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 ...
Benefits and the Robin Hood Tax
Friday, March 12th, 2010 by Moussa Haddad Posted in Inequality, Welfare reform, attitudes, livelihoods | No Comments »We’ve already told you quite a bit about what poverty looks like in the UK. But, you may well ask, don’t we have benefits, welfare and social security, in short, a safety net, which tackles that very problem? Allow me ...
