Sunday, 15th September marks the fifth anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers that triggered the financial crash.
I think we all remember how, in the aftermath of the crisis, meetings and media were brimming with enthusiasm for how finance could...
As a nation, we are paying the price for not better supporting women at work. The UK Women’s Business Council report ‘Maximising women’s contribution to future economic growth’ published earlier this summer found that there are over 2.4 million women...
The rising cost of living is a key threat to the livelihoods and prospects of many families. Higher prices and a stagnant economy mean that Britain’s parents are now facing a childcare crisis of this government’s making.
Prices have shot up...
Much controversy has surrounded universal credit, the flagship welfare reform of the Coalition government that comes into operation nationwide this October. The brainchild of Iain Duncan Smith, universal credit is designed to replace most existing welfare payments with a single...
Political commitment to ending child poverty isn’t what it used to be. From 2010’s dizzy heights of embedding the target to abolish child poverty by 2020 in legislation, we now find it – potentially – downgraded to a footnote in...
In opposition, David Cameron re-positioned his party with a new brand of ‘compassionate Conservatism’ that could heal ‘broken Britain’. Three years into government, the record contrasts sharply with those promises.
Recently, we learned that absolute child poverty has risen sharply. The...
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