Add to ORKGAlan Milburn, the government’s social mobility ‘tsar’, last week released a report into child poverty and social mobility in which it was warned that, because work can no longer guarantee a way out of poverty, Britain risks seeing social mobility ‘go backwards’. David Binder looks at the findings of the report and examines some of the potential policy responses
This report calls for a wide-ranging overhaul of income support, housing and employment services to ...
This paper examines the relationship between tax credits and in-work poverty, drawing on the finding...
With the new leader of the Labour party making it a core tenet of his policy package, and with suppo...
As unemployment continues to rise to near-record levels, the reductions in child poverty seen under ...
Relative poverty in the UK has risen massively since 1979 mainly because of increasing worklessness,...
There is growing evidence of the problematic nature of the UK’s ‘flexible labour market’ with rising...
In response to arguments that the ‘social mobility problem’ has been overstated and that social mobi...
As low pay and in-work poverty have proliferated, demands for a higher, ‘living wage’, have gathere...
The coalition government has consistently emphasised greater social mobility as one of its central g...
The single parent employment rate has improved significantly over the past 20 years, but lately this...
New welfare has been prominent in recent European social policy debates. It involves mobilising more...
Poverty is a lifestyle choice, according to government rhetoric. And although research suggests othe...
There is growing concern about the problem of in-work poverty in the UK. Despite this, the literatur...
The relationships between employment, education, opportunity, social exclusion and poverty are centr...
There has been much discussion recently about the issue of in-work poverty in the UK. Daniel Silver ...
This report calls for a wide-ranging overhaul of income support, housing and employment services to ...
This paper examines the relationship between tax credits and in-work poverty, drawing on the finding...
With the new leader of the Labour party making it a core tenet of his policy package, and with suppo...
As unemployment continues to rise to near-record levels, the reductions in child poverty seen under ...
Relative poverty in the UK has risen massively since 1979 mainly because of increasing worklessness,...
There is growing evidence of the problematic nature of the UK’s ‘flexible labour market’ with rising...
In response to arguments that the ‘social mobility problem’ has been overstated and that social mobi...
As low pay and in-work poverty have proliferated, demands for a higher, ‘living wage’, have gathere...
The coalition government has consistently emphasised greater social mobility as one of its central g...
The single parent employment rate has improved significantly over the past 20 years, but lately this...
New welfare has been prominent in recent European social policy debates. It involves mobilising more...
Poverty is a lifestyle choice, according to government rhetoric. And although research suggests othe...
There is growing concern about the problem of in-work poverty in the UK. Despite this, the literatur...
The relationships between employment, education, opportunity, social exclusion and poverty are centr...
There has been much discussion recently about the issue of in-work poverty in the UK. Daniel Silver ...
This report calls for a wide-ranging overhaul of income support, housing and employment services to ...
This paper examines the relationship between tax credits and in-work poverty, drawing on the finding...
With the new leader of the Labour party making it a core tenet of his policy package, and with suppo...