The government’s redefinition will magically reduce child poverty
Almost two out of three in Britain’s poor live in working households – thanks to the changes they’ll be left out of poverty statistics
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Just how many families are there where three generations have ‘never worked’?
In seeking to justify the government’s reforms to the benefits system, Iain Duncan Smith has previously claimed that there exists a situation in Britain where “three generations of the same family have [often] never worked”. However all the the evidence shows what an insignificant problem “three generations of out-of-work families” are in the grand scheme of things.
Tax credit changes will discourage work and have other disastrous effects
There are warnings today that 424,000 adults and 470,000 children are at risk of falling into poverty as a result of the government’s tax credit changes.
New record high for NEETs in 2011 – but why?
IPPR’s Richard Darlington looks at why there’s been such a rocket in the number of NEETs in 2011. Is it EMA? Is it the Future Jobs Fund? Is it just the Tories?
When will politicians stop taking the public for fools on immigration?
Politicians refuse to tell the truth to voters, when they say that immigration is the cause of persistently high worklessness, writes Declan Gaffney.
Getting worklessness wrong, again
‘Worklessness’ is one of those terms which means one thing in specialist usage and something quite different in political discourse and media commentary.
The myth of the intergenerational workless household
References to the pattern of intergenerational worklessness in households are rarely accompanied by any relevant statistics on the no. of households involved.