Hutton’s pensions failure condemns millions to poverty in retirement
By ignoring the issue of affordability to workers Lord Hutton’s recommendations are fatally flawed, writes Naomi Cooke, the GMB’s National Pensions Officer.
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ESA cuts will exacerbate poverty and remove help for disabled
Neil Coyle of Disability Alliance writes how the proposed cuts to diasability allowances (ESA) will exacerbate poverty and remove support for the disabled.
Government review of UK aid – goals and reaction
The Department for International Development (DFID) today unveiled the results of a review into UK aid – Left Foot Forward outlines the main policy goals and reaction.
A concerted policy effort can bring down teen pregnancy rates, new stats show
We need to be careful about always seeing teenage pregnancy as a social evil, writes Kate Bell, former Director of Policy Advice and Communications at Gingerbread.
Payday lenders: the need for urgent action
On 3 February, the House of Commons will vote on whether to support the introduction of a series of caps on the amount that payday and home credit lenders can charge for credit. The vote comes at a time when the UK has accumulated one of the highest levels of personal debt in the world. In April last year, British people owed over £1,460bn in private debt.
As 2011 dawns, remember the 3.9 million children still living in poverty
In the last of our series of articles looking ahead to 2011, Left Foot Forward’s devolution correspondent Ed Jacobs presents a sobering picture of the state of the nation, with many millions still living in poverty and suffering depression.
Work no longer enough to prevent poverty
In-work poverty is now a bigger challenge than out-of-work poverty, new research finds today. 58% of children living in relative poverty have at least one parent in work.
By end of 2011, there will be 4.6 unemployed people for every vacancy
The economic turmoil of the past 2 years is absent from the coalition government’s ambitious prescription to reduce unemployment, explains ippr’s Tess Lamming.