Communities become more conducive to social mobility when the poor live side by side with those in the middle of the income range
The former MP asks the question as she visits one in Cheadle Hulme.
The Work and Pensions Secretary is already willing to do so, so there’s no reason not to get a move-on.
A comprehensive speech on food banks, food, poverty, church work, demand, benefits & self and community help in full.
A poverty measure that has so little regard for what living standards people enjoy deserves to be treated with scepticism.
If the economy no longer provides ordinary working people with the hope of improved living standards, then the mainstream majority will look to the state instead
UK households now owe £1.43 trillion, and a third of households have no savings.
Modern centre-right politicians should focus on the cost of living, the housing crisis, worklessness, lack of educational attainment, poor quality childcare and welfare dependency.
Also: dreadful policemen. Idle George Galloway. Equal Britain. Glorious Dubrovnik…and my passion for Katie Price
Some really interesting thoughts on crime and poverty from Megan McArdle in the Daily Beast (an online Newsweek spin-off, in case you wondered). Because poverty in the developed world is much more about relative concepts like social exclusion than absolute realities like hunger and destitution, conflicting interpretations abound: “There's what I'd call the implicit conservative […]
John Kay was one of the original New Labour gurus. It’s therefore significant to see him incline, however cautiously, towards Iain Duncan Smith’s thinking on poverty. He begins by asking what poverty actually means in today’s world: “People who struggle to find enough food to eat are poor. The World Bank’s poverty line is an income […]
If you didn’t catch Neil O’Brien’s thought-provoking report for the Daily Telegraph last week, here’s another chance. He begins by comparing the cognitive development of rich and poor children: “By the time they are 62 months old, the cognitive development of the children of the richest 20% is 16 months ahead of children from the poorest 20%.” What […]
The purpose of the Deep End is to feature the very best of in-depth journalism. John Lee’s magnificent essay in the American Interest certainly qualifies on that front – stripping away the recycled clichés of received opinion to reveal a more troubling reality. Lee’s central argument is covered in the next post (see below), but before that, let’s […]
New social enterprises can offer people on lower incomes an alternative to payday lenders