Combating Poverty - What is to be done?

The study of poverty and its impact on working people is not new. Phillips Kay-Shuttleworth was a doctor practising in Manchester when in 1832 he produced his report “Condition of the Working Classes”. A humane and enlightened social reformer he laid bare the degradation suffered by working people in England - “the most pauperised country in Europe”.

Make 2012 the year to tackle poverty

The excellent piece on UNISONActive (Review of 2011) rightly provided an analysis of the challenges that we face as an organising union. For 2012 the overwhelming issue has to be tackling the poverty that is creeping and blighting the lives of our members and our communities throughout the UK. It is children in particular who suffer the consequences: http://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/files/
jrf/poverty-social-exclusion-assessment-full.pdf