Yvette Cooper launches child poverty petition
Yvette Cooper is launching a child poverty petition, which calls on the government to rethink plans to cut tax…
Child Poverty
I’ll bring back pledge to end child poverty, says Cooper
Yvette Cooper has pledged to reinstate the last Labour Government’s pledge to end child poverty within a generation.…
Be under no illusion – poverty has risen under this government
In a debate on poverty in the UK last week, my colleague Lisa Nandy told the story of…
Child poverty is not inevitable – Labour can reduce it
Since the coalition government came to power almost five years ago, child poverty has increased to 3.5 m.…
We need a new settlement for communities across the country
For communities up and down the country the last few years have been extremely tough. The current Tory…
Milburn says Labour’s minimum wage target not ambitious enough
Alan Milburn, the former Labour minister who now chairs the commission on social mobility and child poverty, has…
Getting the OBR to track child poverty would mean governments could no longer ignore it
David Cameron pledged to lead the most family friendly government ever. But this has turned out to be…
Number of people living in absolute poverty rises to almost 11 million
New official figures from the Department for Work and Pensions show that the number of people living in…
Cameron is too busy trying to redefine child poverty to tackle it
Under David Cameron’s child poverty is rising not falling. And the government’s failure to tackle child poverty leads…
Cameron has presided over an astonishing and avoidable rise in poverty
Working parents are simply not earning enough to escape poverty. That was the recent, damning verdict of the…
