Category - poverty

March 25, 2016

New Christian Aid framework for empowering poor communities

International development agency Christian Aid has launched a new framework outlining one of its ‘priority approaches’ to tackling poverty – building the resilience of women, men and children in poor and marginalised communities.
March 5, 2016

Benefit sanctions - inhumane, legally dubious and potentially fatal

A mother too malnourished to breastfeed her baby - not in a famine-stricken developing country, but in the UK, today.
January 12, 2016

Our government is failing to uphold our human right to food

Enough is enough. We can no longer tolerate families going hungry in the seventh wealthiest nation on the planet.
December 30, 2015

Creating poverty behind a veil of rhetoric

Government ministers often talk about 'hard' and 'soft' power, usually in the context of foreign policy, where soft power is diplomacy and hard power is military.
November 23, 2015

New report warns of effect of cuts on public services

A new report by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) warns that severe spending cuts are already undermining public service quality, and that if the Chancellor does not rethink his plans to cut spending further, public service outcomes are set to plummet.
November 9, 2015

Poverty is about income - everything else is a distraction

When the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)
October 31, 2015

Placing DWP staff in foodbanks

A few days ago, Giuseppina Salamone, a welfare rights adviser from Brighton, wrote
September 23, 2015

Pope Francis, Catholic Social Teaching, and UK politics

As Pope Francis arrived in the USA his biographer, British journalist Paul Vallely tweeted, "The Pope said on the plane what I said last week in politico.com -
July 9, 2015

Details of welfare cuts and the impact of the budget on the most vulnerable

It would be quite misleading to describe the 2015 Summer Budget as a “one nation budget” or as favouring “working families” and “giving the nation a pay rise” in any meaningful sense, says Simon Barrow. On the contrary it hits low income households and disabled people, and will increase further Britain’s alarming levels of inequality.
June 30, 2015

Beware the spin as the budget approaches

When the poverty figures were published last week, many people were surprised that they did not show a significant rise.