Campaigners seeking to draw attention to the worst effects of hard times on family poverty rightly cite the growing use of food banks to illustrate severe deprivation in the UK. But while about 200,000 children were in families using foodbanks last year, about 30 times this number – six million children – were on low […]
Facing up to the realities of a citizen’s income
Category: Childcare, Families, Income, Universal credit
Like many very simple ideas, a ‘Citizen’s Income’ only becomes complicated when you think through its implications. This fact at least was illuminated in a worthwhile debate I had on Radio 4 Moneybox with some of CI’s advocates. The idea of a Citizen’s Income is that a single, unconditional flat-rate payment for each adult and […]
4 in 10 people living in households with children in London can’t afford a minimum standard of living
Category: Income, Living standards, London, MIS
Over the past couple of years there have been lots of stories of families – and 30-somethings more generally – leaving London and moving to the other big cities in the UK because of the high cost of living London. Our new research sheds light on the pressures felt by families living in the capital. […]
Higher costs or higher expectations: Are Londoners simply spoilt?
Category: Income, Living standards, London, MIS
Our research into a Minimum Income Standard for London found that a decent standard of living costs up to 50 per cent more in London than it does elsewhere in the country. These figures are based on a comparison of what groups of people in London and in other urban areas of the UK have […]
The ideal and realities of a citizen’s income
Category: Income
Debate about a basic income paid to every citizen needs to confront important choices about what kind of social support we are willing to pay for The apparent popularity of the idea of a citizen’s income feels rather baffling when set against other indicators of public opinion. If we believe the British Social Attitudes Survey, […]