It’s time to reclaim family from the right
The Right doesn’t get to define ‘family’ – Labour’s promise to be the party of family can present a radically different offering to all kinds of families across the UK.
The Right doesn’t get to define ‘family’ – Labour’s promise to be the party of family can present a radically different offering to all kinds of families across the UK.
Poor families will be £600 worse off by 2020/21
Many older people won’t be able to rely on traditional sources of informal care in the coming years, writes Jack Lofthouse.
Much like the assertion that nobody can talk about immigration without being accused of being a racist (if anything immigration is talked about too much relative to its impact), the idea that public concern about immigration is related to the numbers of migrants settling in the UK appears also to be a myth.
In two weeks time the daughter of one of my friends will get married. This happy occasion will be marred by the fact that soon after the wedding her new husband may have to leave the UK. Despite his high earning potential, new rules about family migration, introduced in July 2012, will exclude him from obtaining a spouse’s visa.
More and more working people are reliant on Housing Benefit – contrary to what the prime minister claims.
The planned shake up of child benefit system will affect families and their incomes, new research by The Children’s society shows. Is it time for a re-think?
Eric Pickles’ proposals to deal with ‘troubled families’ is a rehash of a New Labour policy, but served on bed of dubious spin kicking the poor and public sector workers.
David Cameron has rooted the causes of the August riots in values and family break-up. So why is he proposing a benefit cap that will encourage parents to split?
James Plunkett, secretary to the Resolution Foundation’s Commission on Living Standards, on the Joseph Rowntree Foundation report on ‘minimum income standards’.