Whose Economy? Starting the conversation towards a fairer Scotland
Monday, November 7th, 2011 by Mike Danson Posted in Cuts, Inequality, Livelihoods, Unemployment, Welfare reform, Whose Economy | No Comments »Several key messages were generated by the discussions in the Whose Economy? seminar series – which resulted in a series of papers now available here – and not the least of these was the importance of forensic social science 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 Sustainable Livelihoods Approach: a bottom-up approach to overcoming poverty
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011 by Moussa Haddad Posted in Attitudes, Benefits, Livelihoods | No Comments »This post first appeared on the ippr website. We’re used to hearing – depressingly often these days – about people living in poverty as being variously feckless, undeserving, or suffering from dependency: in short, as passive, unthinking victims. What if, instead, ...
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 ...
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 ...
