Three messages for families in 2020: don’t be a lone parent, don’t have too many children, and do work all hours
By 2020 a lone parent will be 30 per cent worse off than they were in 2010
Search Results for Universal Credit
George Osborne taking from the poor to give to the wealthy, according to new research
The average annual amount lost by low paid working households is equivalent to a year’s worth of school dinners
Osborne’s Living Wage will narrow the pay gap, but won’t help the very poorest families
New research shows that the biggest beneficiaries of the new wage will be households in the middle of the bottom wage distribution
The Tories don’t want to make work pay. They want to make working families pay
David Cameron doesn’t have the first idea how to lead a workers’ party
IDS is yesterday’s man seeking headlines
A minister desperately trying to hide from his own policy failures at great human cost
The jobs figures: even if it’s a blip, it’s a worrying one
As the prime minister boasted about the coalition’s jobs record, the reality was heading in the opposite direction
Why the ‘welfare merry-go-round’ is just spin
We pay taxes for the NHS in case we need healthcare – why should welfare be any different?
This week’s most read: Jeremy Corbyn, an economist’s view of Osborne, and even more sanctions
The most read stories on Left Foot Forward this week
He voted against benefit exceptions for cancer patients: meet the new minister for disabled people
Sounds like he’s brimming with compassion
Cutting support for deaf workers and increasing the Bedroom Tax: welcome back, Iain Duncan Smith
IFS analysis sets out what welfare users can expect now the Tories are back in – and it’s not good