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The Cost of Living Crisis

In 2022, the cost of living is of major concern for many. Rising prices in food, fuel and transport are forcing people to make hard choices over how they spend their money. The least well-off are the worst affected, with those choices being narrowed to heating or eating, or skipping meals to feed …

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Blog, Economy, Poverty and Inequality, Universal Credit · 24 March, 2022

The Spring Statement number you need to know: 600,000 more people pulled into poverty

The most important number from the entire spring statement was not from the Chancellor but from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. They estimated that over the next year, 600,000 people will be pulled into poverty [1]. The 14.6 million people already experiencing poverty will of course be pulled …

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Asylum and Migration, Blog, Poverty and Inequality, Universal Credit, Welcoming Environment · 14 December, 2021

Excrescences and Performative Cruelty

The former Welfare Reform minster has described two of his own policies as “excrescences” that were made into law because they were popular. The phrase “Performative Cruelty” has been used to describe such policies and most recently in describing the treatment of refugees. Here Paul asks if or when …

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Poverty & Inequality briefing – Scotland

Updated March 2021 by David Bradwell “Poverty is not only about shortage of money. It is about rights and relationships; about how people are treated and how they regard themselves; about powerlessness; exclusion and loss of equity.”   Participant at local poverty hearing held in …

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Poverty & Inequality briefing – Wales

Updated March 2021by Gethin Rhys “Poverty is not only about shortage of money. It is about rights and relationships; about how people are treated and how they regard themselves; about powerlessness; exclusion and loss of equity.” Participant at local poverty hearing held in …

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Poverty & Inequality briefing – England

Updated March 2021by Paul Morrison “Poverty is not only about shortage of money. It is about rights and relationships; about how people are treated and how they regard themselves; about powerlessness; exclusion and loss of equity.” Participant at local poverty hearing held in …

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Poverty and Inequality, Universal Credit · 4 April, 2019

One week poverty rises: The next we cut benefits

Announcements you may have missed: Wednesday 27 March: Government announces that life expectancy falls for the poorest women in the UK. Dropping life expectancy in peacetime is extraordinary. The gap in life expectancy between rich and poor is also increasing, as is the gap in healthy …

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Blog, Poverty and Inequality, Universal Credit · 17 November, 2018

UK Poverty is a choice: UN Rapporteur on Poverty

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights recently undertook a 12-day tour of some of the poorest areas of the UK as part of an investigation into poverty in Britain. Professor Philip Alston is one of the legal global experts in the field of economic and social …

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