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 ...
Mind the gap
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 by Charlotte Morris Posted in Inequality, attitudes, uk poverty | 2 Comments »Charlotte Morris, press officer for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation Like all good press officers, I listen to the Today programme every morning. This morning I heard two things I had heard already. The first was an interview with the RSPB – ...
Single parenthood doesn’t equal social breakdown – further evidence
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 by Kate Bell Posted in Inequality, attitudes, child poverty, gender, uk poverty | No Comments »Kate Bell is Director of Policy, Advice and Communications at the single parent charity Gingerbread Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett’s book ‘The Spirit Level’ set out comprehensively to demonstrate that more equal societies are better for everyone. In their update, which ...
What do journalism students know about poverty?
Friday, January 29th, 2010 by Oxfam UK Poverty Programme Posted in attitudes, uk poverty | No Comments »The UK Coalition Against Poverty have begun an excellent programme working with student journalists, introducing them to the realities of poverty in the UK and how to report on it. Eileen Devaney, UKCAP national coordinator, reflects on the experience so ...
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 ...
Child poverty targets are diverting policymakers from the causes to the symptoms of poverty
Friday, January 22nd, 2010 by Neil O'Brien Posted in Inequality, Welfare reform, child poverty, uk poverty | 2 Comments »By Neil O'Brien, Director of Policy Exchange. In the FT this morning Nick Timmins suggests that the Conservatives are considering widening the child poverty target into a wider set of indicators in order to get a more in-depth measure of poverty. The ...
