Would ‘Early Action’ deliver better and cheaper public services?
Friday, December 2nd, 2011 by Will Horwitz Posted in Cuts, Livelihoods, Unemployment, Young people | 1 Comment »Yesterday’s Autumn statement reconfirmed what many have long suspected: there is no imminent prospect of a boom in public spending to match that of the New Labour years. Yet as spending on public services dwindles the needs of those who ...
Raising benefits in line with prices is the very least we can do
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011 by Moussa Haddad Posted in Benefits, Citizen's income, Cuts, Fairness, Fuel poverty, Livelihoods, Unemployment | No Comments »Last week, rumours abounded that the Treasury was considering increasing benefits by less than the rate of inflation. The inflation figure for September tends to be used each year as the reference point for raising benefit and pension levels in ...
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 | 1 Comment »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 ...
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 ...
