Good Society
Action needed to save informal carers from poverty
Craig Berry reports on the need to provide the UK's six million informal carers with support to prevent them falling into poverty.
All in the family? Putting intergenerational poverty into perspective
Does poverty in childhood inevitably lead to poverty in adulthood? Is it passed from parents to children, ‘cascading down the generations’? Special report by Declan Gaffney.
Will a Plaid/Tory coalition put at risk the fight against poverty?
Questions have been raised in the ongoing election campaign about the risks posed to efforts to combat poverty in the event of Conservative/Plaid coalition in Cardiff.
Tackling inequality is key to improving social mobility, Mr Clegg
Duncan Exley, campaign director of One Society, reports on the importance of the Royal Commission on social mobility and the issue it cannot afford to ignore.
‘Feminism trumps egalitarianism’ only if Willetts’s soundbite trumps evidence
David Willetts's soundbite that 'feminism trumped egalitarianism' is refuted by Declan Gaffney, with analysis showing how both work together for social mobility.
UK’s urban sprawl needs to be binned
Mark Anderson reports on the damaging social and environmental effects of UK zoned, suburbanised town planning.