These reports commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on child poverty make interesting reading. They explore every aspect of poverty, not just the financial and how this impacts on a child’s wellbeing and the knock on effects.
Child poverty’s consequences are wide-ranging and long-lasting. Children from low-income families are less likely to do well in school, and more likely to suffer ill-health and to face pressures in their lives that help to explain an association with anti-social behaviours and criminality.
Harpymarx as said before and will say again: we need programmes of work to provide affordable housing and childcare. We also need more people employed in health and education. We do not need tax cuts to fund SUV’s, fancy holidays and private schools.
One demand which could make a difference would be to have a progressive taxation system. Put bluntly, tax the fecking rich! These are basic social democratic demands.
Hat tip: The F Word
Not obviously within topic, but it looks like the glorious Daily Star has got its own solution. Today’s headline is GIVE THE JOBS TO WHITES.
New lows are being reached. Please let no-one say that that ‘paper’ shouldn’t be taken seriously anyway.
http://mymarilyn.blogspot.com/2008/10/daily-star-give-jobs-to-whites.html
Um, Claude – they’re quoting that well known white man, Trevor Phillips.
Yeah but it’s how they’re presenting the story that is debatable.
Their headline, for one, is not in quote.
Trevor Phillips didn’t put it like that.
In typical tabloid-style they used cavalier paraphrasing- You see the Daily Star on the shelves and you just spot GIVE THE JOBS TO WHITE PEOPLE.