Post by Jade on Dec 10, 2009 16:19:24 GMT
New report says we are in it together
A major new Fabian report sets out a strategy for how to reduce, eliminate and prevent poverty in Britain - one based on a vision of equal citizenship.
The report argues that New Labour's covert redistribution has failed to win public support for tackling poverty and inequality. The government now needs to reassert the value of a welfare state that binds us together.
a fabulous new report by the esteemed FABIAN society points out that we have still a long way to go befor social equity can be achieved
Released today it is a "must read" for anyone hoping to see a fairer world, making us realise that Brown simply has not done enough to life people out of poverty through universal benefits,
With 20% of the population still in poverty, the report says the government must ‘reassert the value of a welfare state that binds us together’.
Reforming the tax and welfare systems would see higher earners fund more generous universal benefits, say report authors Tim Horton and James Gregory.
Moving away from universal benefits would create a ‘them and us’ society, the two-year study warns.
Social solidarity is the final report of the two organisations’ Fighting poverty and inequality in an age of affluence research project, commemorating the centenary of Beatrice Webb's 1909 Minority Report to the poor law reform commission.
Webb’s report set out the vision, arguments and values of social justice and challenged the dominant assumption that the poor were solely to blame for their own poverty, identifying society’s ‘collective responsibility to prevent poverty, not merely alleviate it’.
Let mwe know what you think when you read it?
A major new Fabian report sets out a strategy for how to reduce, eliminate and prevent poverty in Britain - one based on a vision of equal citizenship.
The report argues that New Labour's covert redistribution has failed to win public support for tackling poverty and inequality. The government now needs to reassert the value of a welfare state that binds us together.
a fabulous new report by the esteemed FABIAN society points out that we have still a long way to go befor social equity can be achieved
Released today it is a "must read" for anyone hoping to see a fairer world, making us realise that Brown simply has not done enough to life people out of poverty through universal benefits,
With 20% of the population still in poverty, the report says the government must ‘reassert the value of a welfare state that binds us together’.
Reforming the tax and welfare systems would see higher earners fund more generous universal benefits, say report authors Tim Horton and James Gregory.
Moving away from universal benefits would create a ‘them and us’ society, the two-year study warns.
Social solidarity is the final report of the two organisations’ Fighting poverty and inequality in an age of affluence research project, commemorating the centenary of Beatrice Webb's 1909 Minority Report to the poor law reform commission.
Webb’s report set out the vision, arguments and values of social justice and challenged the dominant assumption that the poor were solely to blame for their own poverty, identifying society’s ‘collective responsibility to prevent poverty, not merely alleviate it’.
Let mwe know what you think when you read it?