Monday saw the release of a report by the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) showing what many already expected. In … Continue reading “Only serious reform can halt the increasing cost of childcare in Britain”

If you want to get an idea of the poverty industry’s attitude towards poor people, think of an ultra-overprotective parent, … Continue reading “The poverty industry’s weird anti-work agenda”

When I began working on poverty issues, I had the naïve idea that a child poverty activist was somebody who … Continue reading “What is the ‘poverty industry’?”

Imagine the IEA issued a publication asserting that material hardship was no longer an issue in the developed world. The … Continue reading “An odd coalition: the CPAG and the Spirit Levellers have different views on poverty”

It is a bit tricky to criticise an organisation that describes itself as “the leading charity campaigning for the abolition … Continue reading “Politicised poverty research misses the point”