poverty Articles

The one ‘missing giant’ from the founding text of the welfare state was how we deal with care in our society, argues our editorial Tackling inequality is at the very heart of the centre-left and Labour project. It is what has driven our movement since its foundation....

The rise of poverty in this country is reversible – but the next Labour government will have to think long-term to stop it happening again, writes Ollie Middleton Last weekend’s resignation of Alan Milburn as chair of the government’s Social Mobility Commission is yet...

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...

Last night Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson made the trip to London to deliver a lecture on poverty and life chances. The fact this happened at all should give the Labour party across Great Britain pause to think. It was not so much what she said in her...