People who have less money have less to steal! How dreadful!
Downturn will wipe out Labour's anti-poverty gains
By Ben Russell, Home Affairs Correspondent
Monday, 8 December 2008
The economic downturn threatens to wipe out a decade of Labour attempts
to tackle poverty, researchers will warn today. The recession could
eliminate gains in employment levels within a year and send targets for
tackling child poverty "out of the window," they said.
The authors of the report published today by the Joseph Rowntree
Foundation said the Government's efforts to get the jobless into work
could flounder if there are no vacancies to fill.
The foundation's 10-year study of the Government's anti-poverty drive
will be published as ministers press ahead with plans to force
"virtually everyone" on benefits to work or join training courses in
return for their payments.
James Purnell, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, will
outline reforms in a White Paper due later this week which will include
moves to force people with disabilities or long-term illnesses to seek
training or work experience and to make single mothers with children as
young as one take the first steps back into the world of work.
But with some estimates showing unemployment rising as high as 3.5
million, researchers warned that efforts to cut poverty would be
undermined.
http://www.independ ent.co.uk/ news/uk/politics /downturn- will-wipe- out-
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Monday, 8 December 2008
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