Victoria Winckler Articles

Last week the Joseph Rowntree Foundation published its report – Prosperity without Poverty – on how poverty in Wales could be reduced so that by 2030 the poverty rate will be less than 10 per cent, and that nobody is ever destitute. A mere 14 years away – before the...

The idea that workers should be paid enough to have a basic but acceptable standard of living is nothing new. Campaigners have argued for a ‘living wage’ since the 1870s, with the idea being reinvigorated by community groups, in the 2000s. The Living Wage Commission,...

The Welsh government is facing unprecedented challenges. Both its new ideas and attachment to old principles will come under the microscope, argues Victoria Winckler WALES is facing very tough times – tougher than in most other parts of Britain. It has one of the...