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 | 2 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 ...
How should the media portray poverty?
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 by Will Horwitz Posted in Inequality, Welfare reform, attitudes, livelihoods, migrants, uk poverty | No Comments »Will Horwitz works on communications for East London Charity Community Links. He is also an alumnus of Oxfam's UK Poverty Programme. (Community Links are spending this week debating how the media portrays poverty). A couple of years ago a headline in ...
Let’s make tax more fair
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 by Ben Morgan Posted in Citizen's income, Welfare reform, livelihoods, uk poverty | No Comments »Voters want clarity on how they will be taxed, but they also need their leaders to get it right. Referring to the scheduled 0.5% increase in the rate of National Insurance (on top of an identical increase last year) during a ...
The quiet death rattle of social mobility
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 by Moussa Haddad Posted in attitudes, equality, livelihoods, uk poverty | No Comments »An interesting article by Will Hutton in Sunday’s Observer adds to the slow trickle of discussion around social mobility, set off by Alan Milburn’s report on ‘access to the professions’. More often than not, it’s a debate that’s being seen ...
NeedNOTGreed
Friday, December 4th, 2009 by Moussa Haddad Posted in Welfare reform, attitudes, livelihoods, uk poverty | No Comments »Oxfam are proud members of the NeedNOTGreed coalition, which is working hard to raise awareness of the range of issues that force people to work in the informal economy. These issues are many, varied and complex, and there’s no silver ...
