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...
Child Poverty
State of the Nation 2014
...of children entitled to free school meals are achieving five good GCSEs including English and maths, rising to two thirds by 2025. Long-term youth unemployment to be ended by 2020...
Government response to child poverty and social mobility challenge - more pace, drive and ambition needed
Posted by:
Alan Milburn, Posted on:
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Categories:
Child Poverty, Social Mobility, Social Mobility and Child Poverty, Uncategorized
...a list of policies rather than the detailed step-by-step plan required to meet the tough challenge of ending child poverty by 2020 and the continued inability of government to develop...
Working poverty: what's going on?
Posted by:
Professor Paul Gregg, Posted on:
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Categories:
Child Poverty, Poverty, Social Mobility and Child Poverty
...The change has been driven by three things, two of which are good news: A big decrease in the proportion of children living in workless households: from 20% in 1996...
First impressions on the Child Poverty Strategy: a missed opportunity?
...things, overall the draft strategy is a serious missed opportunity. It is more coherent than its predecessor, with a clear diagnosis of the problem, and some activity listed in all...
Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission: our new blog
...financial crisis has brought these concerns to the fore. In its wake a new public consensus has begun to emerge that unearned wealth for a few at the top, growing...