
The Universal Credit Uplift. Easy in, but not easy out.
There may some ingenious halfway house solution. But it is hard to say how extending it for another year can be avoided.
There may some ingenious halfway house solution. But it is hard to say how extending it for another year can be avoided.
We found over a million people excluded from the Government schemes are struggling to pay for food and everyday essentials.
The recent bias in Downing Street against putting the Work and Pensions Secretary up for press conferences and big media shows is inexplicable.
The Prime Minster could do worse than dust down the Social Justice Outcomes Framework published by the Coalition Government.
Labour would abolish Universal Credit, which has coped well with the unprecedented pressures of this unprecedented last year.
The levelling up agenda depends upon nation-wide digital inclusivity. If we give up on this, we will be trying to deliver it with one hand held behind our back.
The OBR’s horrid forecasts of an output implosion and soaring unemployment will do nothing to quell Tory resistance to tougher Covid tiers.
It’s baffling why think-tanks are taking the OBR assessments as truth, given its prediction record.
The second in our mini-series of pieces from the Centre for Social Justice on the virus – and helping those in deep poverty.
We are allowing others to create a narrative for us, and in the absence of an agreed poverty measure and subsequent strategy, we always will.
Together with tax cuts and less regulation, higher or more extensive benefits look like better support for hungry children than vouchers.
Ministers could not have handled the matter worse if they’d tried. But Paul Maynard, pictured, is championing a solution.
And when it comes to paying for the crisis measures, as we must, taxes must not fall on younger workers.
The Government’s own calculations of welfare payments do not cost in the provision of a healthy diet.
It is about time we had an honest conversation about segmenting the population, with more targeted protection for the elderly and vulnerable.