'It suits politicians of all parties to claim that work is the route out of poverty, but the statistics suggest otherwise.' See here for our immediate reaction to the latest official poverty statistics, published 20 May. Our more considered response/s to these statistics will appear here over the next few days.
Dynamic Benefits: towards welfare that works was published by the Centre for Social Justice in September 2009. At first sight, the ideas on which its based – that the benefit system needs to be simpler and fairer in order to reduce dependency and support positive behaviour – are hard to disagree with. So should the report’s proposals be supported, either as a whole or in part? And what are the reservations?
This note represents a response to the report which emerged from a workshop held by NPI in February 2010, involving people from organisations with long experience of how the current benefit system works. Its purpose is to stimulate a discussion around the report.
The key message of the twelfth annual Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion report, published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, is that poverty, unemployment, problem debt and home repossessions did not start worsening only with the recession but instead started rising several years earlier. More...
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