Frank Soodeen Articles

The warning from the United Kingdoms’s four children’s commissioners that another 1 million children are at risk of poverty, as a result of further cuts, comes at a slightly awkward time for forecasters. Last week’s official data showing that poverty rates, except...

Debate over the housing crisis tends to focus on rising house prices, and (more recently) the impact of higher rents on people’s ability to save for deposits. In both cases the implication is that politicians should be doing more to remove the obstacles to ownership,...

There are several theories for why we pay care workers relatively little. Devaluation theory describes it in terms of gender bias – most care workers are women, and given decision-makers’ tendency to underestimate the contribution of female-dominated roles to the...