Benefits and the Robin Hood Tax
Friday, March 12th, 2010 by Moussa Haddad Posted in Inequality, Welfare reform, attitudes, livelihoods | No Comments »We’ve already told you quite a bit about what poverty looks like in the UK. But, you may well ask, don’t we have benefits, welfare and social security, in short, a safety net, which tackles that very problem? Allow me ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
