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 ...
Stop headline-chasing on benefit fraud – and concentrate on fixing the system
Friday, August 12th, 2011 by Moussa Haddad Posted in Attitudes, Benefits, Fairness, Inequality, Unemployment | 1 Comment »This week, David Cameron returned to one of the favoured themes of politicians looking for easy headlines – benefit fraud. With the welfare bill under pressure like no other area of public spending and with benefits already at historically low ...
Nightmare on Inflation Street: the sequel
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011 by DonaldHirsch Posted in Cuts, Inequality, Livelihoods, UK poverty, Wellbeing | 2 Comments »This post first appeared on the Joseph Rowntree Foundation blog. In the 1990s, we thought we had slain the big economic dragon of inflation. Now it is back – at nothing like the double-digit rates of the 1970s, but ...
JRF research shows that the poorest are being left behind
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011 by Moussa Haddad Posted in Attitudes, Child poverty, Inequality, Livelihoods, UK poverty, Wellbeing | 2 Comments »Today sees the publication of the fourth annual edition of the JRF’s Minimum Income Standard for the UK, based upon what ordinary members of the public believe to be necessary for an acceptable standard of living. This week, we’ll be ...
The wage needed to make ends meet – rising fast
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011 by Chris Goulden Posted in Attitudes, Child poverty, Inequality, Livelihoods, UK poverty, Wellbeing | No Comments »Since 2008, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has been publishing its annual Minimum Income Standard for the UK, which shows how much money you need for an acceptable standard of living. This standard is based on the items and activities that ...
‘Technically feasible’ and ‘morally right’ – latest from the Robin Hood tax campaign
Thursday, April 28th, 2011 by Oxfam UK Poverty Posted in Attitudes, Cuts, Equality, Fairness, Inequality, Robin Hood Tax, UK poverty, UKPP news, Unemployment, Welfare reform, Wellbeing | No Comments »It’s been a busy, important and successful couple of months for the Robin Hood Tax campaign. Increasingly widely recognised as an idea ‘whose time has come’ (to quote from a recent article by economist Ha-Joon Chang and researcher Duncan Green), ...
