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• in Family
  The Throes of Poverty
  A Child Born Into Poverty Has Only a Few Good Memories of the Past
  by / on Jun 26, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “child poverty”

 

• Don’t forget – #voteWTF tomorrow at 8:30pm, TV3

  
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  A few of my closest pseudonymous Twitter pals and I will be live-tweeting TV3′s The Vote, asking  hard questions like “can’t we just keep bashing parents and ignoring the shitty situations they’re living in due to ongoing neoliberal economic fuckups?” Tune it to #voteWTF tomorrow night for good ...
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• Poverty UK, revisited…

  
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    image from The Guardian There have been a series of stories in the press over the past few months, setting an agenda that goes something like this; Austerity is necessary, we all need to pull in our belts for the sake of the nation Poverty is avoidable if you work hard. Only those who […]
  5 days ago

• Today’s poverty figures

  
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  The number of people in absolute poverty rose by nearly a million in just twelve months . The 2011-12 poverty figures, the Households Below Average Income statistics, have just been published and I’m genuinely shocked. The number of people in absolute poverty went up by 900,000 from 2010-11. I’ve just written ...
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• Family Fact: Fatherlessness in America

  
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  Sixty percent of kids in Richmond, Virginia, are without a dad in the home, reports First Things First of Greater Richmond . First Things First works to help men become actively involved in their children’s lives in Richmond, Virginia, because, as the group explains, often “it’s the fathers that leave the ...
  6 days ago

• The government’s failure on child poverty

  
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  The End Child Poverty coalition has just released the results of an opinion poll that shows 82 per cent of British people think that tackling child poverty should be a government priority. This includes: 92 per cent of Labour voters 80 per cent of those planning to vote for UKIP 80 per cent of Liberal Democrats ...
  6 days ago

• Case Study in Department for Work and Pensions

  
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  Introduction : The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is the biggest public service delivery department in the UK. It is responsible for welfare and pension policy and is a key player in tackling child poverty and serves over 20 million customers. The DWP delivers its customer services through a number of ...
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• Canon Samuel Barnett: Celebrating a Social Pioneer

  
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  East London has over many years been characterised as a place in need – a place of poverty ill-health and worklessness. Whilst this impression is not entirely fair or accurate it is true to say that some of the streets marked on Charles Booths “poverty maps” of the 1890s – ( The Life and Labour of the People ...
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• The costs of child poverty

  
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  We all know that growing up in poverty makes for a miserable childhood and that the consequences can be grave and enduring. But new research published last week shows that alongside the moral argument for reducing child poverty is a hard-nosed economic one too. Building on previous work undertaken for the Joseph ...
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• Cutting food stamps hurts child development

  
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  How Cuts to Food Stamps Threaten Children’s Health : The consequences, say researchers like Chilton, can be predicted. Over the last decade or so, a large body of science has accumulated on food insecurity’s effects. “We have empirical evidence that SNAP prevents childhood hospitalizations and promotes ...
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• Labour must not forget the economic costs of child poverty

  
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  By Alison Garnham As the Chancellor prepares the ground for this month’s spending review and Labour starts to provide more detail on its spending approach for 2015, the three main political parties sometimes sound as if they believe social justice and economic efficiency are mutually exclusive. That the toughest ...
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• Myths of Socialism #7

  
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  The Myth of Child Poverty Technically, of course, child poverty does exist because virtually all children are, by definition, poor. Children have, apart from a very few, no assets and no income – which is as good a definition of abject poverty as any. But when our socialist friends talk about child poverty, they do ...
  2 weeks ago

• A good start for all Kiwi kids is a can do

  
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  A good start for all Kiwi kids is a can do. KidsCan is once more stepping into the breach left by the Government and trying to plug gaps to help our most vulnerable children get a good start in life. The charity, which has led the charge on food in schools, is now looking at plugging holes in the health ...
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• A failure to confront reality!

  
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  In an article by the hand-wringing Brian Rudman at the NZ Herald on the iniquity of the government not giving the ‘poor’ millions more was this quote ‘As a school principal asked on radio yesterday, “Who’s going to give them breakfast on the 160 other days of the year?”" Well how about the parents? ...
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• Meet Mark Beaumont at Dunoon Burgh Hall on Day 3 of his Highland Fault Line Challenge

  
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  On Monday 3rd June at 7.30pm, everyone interested is welcome to come along to Dunoon Burgh Hall to meet world record breaking cyclist and international adventurer Mark Beaumont as he ditches the bike for one of the biggest challenges he has ever faced. Over ten days in aid of the STV Appeal 2013, Mark will be ...
  3 weeks ago

• "Sadly necessary"

  
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  The Government is set to unveil measures today to ensure that children do not go to school hungry. And Christchurch school principals have summed up the rationale behind the initiative; Stuff reports: A national scheme to provide childrens breakfast in schools is a sad but necessary policy, Christchurch ...
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• Dealing with out of control students

  
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  Kia Ora A recent case of student violence at a school has had me thinking about how schools deal with the problem. Many of you would have seen it at primary, intermediate or high school: an angry,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  3 weeks ago

• Poverty in Pictures

  
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   Poverty in Pictures [IMG: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1CB4tRJqfaY/UZjXTpKHxuI/AAAAAAAAbjA/w6R2Mw-SbpM/s400/21175_469833876430437_9403899_n.jpg][IMG: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d_pMRSlmkiw/UZjXUU6gnSI/AAAAAAAAbjI/lTnNbGY4ipg/s400/164956_572362682784232_1968579085_n.jpg][IMG: ...
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• Laws on child poverty

  
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  Michael Laws writes in the SST : Because most New Zealanders are not convinced that New Zealand has a child poverty problem. We have a piss-poor-parenting problem, yes. We don’t have an inadequacy of resources. Which is where the Children’s Commissioner and the liberal lobbyists have it all wrong. They ...
  4 weeks ago

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