Welfare
Campaign launched to commit UK to spending 0.7% of income on development aid
The Global Poverty Promise campaign today asks people to support a new law that would commit the UK to spend 0.7% of national income on development assistance.
Tower Block of Commons plays into the hands of those crying Broken Britain
Communities featured have voiced fears the programme will focus ghoulishly on the negative, ignoring the positive, playing into the Broken Britain narrative.
Unreported: pensioner poverty falls by 900,000
New figures show that there are 900,000 fewer pensioners in poverty than 10 years ago. But the mainstream media have largely reported this as 2 million in poverty.
Child poverty figures are bad news
Yesterday’s report on severe child poverty confirms DWP’s official poverty figures. Between 2004-05 and 2007-08 the number of children living in poverty increased.
Wales has the worst child poverty in the UK
Research has found that Wales has the highest proportion of children in poverty in the UK, with 15% of children living in a home making less than £12,220 a year
Female incapacity benefit claimants treble in past 30 years to more than 1 million
A new report has identified key factors in the rise in female incapacity benefit claimants.