A Living Wage Decade
Living Wage Week 2014 brings mixed news about efforts to tackle low pay. While the number of accredited Living Wage employers has increased to over 1,000 this has not been enough to stop the number of people on low pay …
Child Poverty
State of the Nation 2014
Our annual State of the Nation report was laid before the UK Parliament on 20 October. In it we assess the progress that the UK is making on improving social mobility and reducing child poverty and the contributions being …
Government response to child poverty and social mobility challenge - more pace, drive and ambition needed
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Alan Milburn, Posted on:
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Child Poverty, Social Mobility, Social Mobility and Child Poverty, Uncategorized
Last October, the Commission published our first State of the Nation report – a 350-page anatomy of the many challenges faced in making Britain a fairer place. In it we sought not just to describe the raft of programmes being put in …
Working poverty: what's going on?
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Professor Paul Gregg, Posted on:
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Child Poverty, Poverty, Social Mobility and Child Poverty
One of the Commission’s key concerns about child poverty is its growth of poverty in working families – a trend both recent and startling. As our State of the Nation report highlighted, in 1996-97, more children in poverty lived …
First impressions on the Child Poverty Strategy: a missed opportunity?
This morning the Government has published its long-awaited draft Child Poverty Strategy – a document that, in theory, constitutes its plan to meet its statutory obligation to end child poverty by 2020. Government publications come and go but this one …
Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission: our new blog
It is in Britain’s DNA that everyone should have a fair chance in life. Yet too often demography is destiny in our country. Being born poor often leads to a lifetime of poverty. Poor schools ease people into poor jobs. …