Welfare
A-list Tory ‘asks’ how we can stop the poor from having too many kids
Alex Hern reveals star Tory Harriet Baldwin’s “questions” about whether poor parents ought to be punished for having too many children.
Report warns families face being “impoverished” by coalition’s welfare reforms
Left Foot Forward’s Ed Jacobs writes about the disproportionate effect the welfare reforms will have on poverty in Wales and Scotland.
How poor children will get poorer on Cameron’s watch
Sam Royston of The Children’s Society explains how the coalition is on course to reverse all progress on reducing child poverty since 2000.
On welfare reform, IDS is ignoring the ERAD project; Miliband must not join him
A little-known program, the Employment Retention and Advancement Demonstration Project, could be the basis of a new phase of welfare reform, argues Stephen Evans.
Osborne’s ‘conference treat’ on welfare reform turning into a sticky mess
The benefits cap was wonderful politics for George Osborne - but now the politics is turning sticky as the reality of its impcat hits home.
Sinning with statistics: Frank Field on welfare and immigration
There is no question of Frank Field lying: but there are other ways to sin with statistics - as Mr Field proves through his analysis of benefit payments.