Tag Archives: Tackling poverty

Is Miliband’s “British Promise” one to watch?

Ed Miliband spoke at the weekend to the Progress conference. It hardly won critical acclaim: a New Statesman blog called it the ‘worst speech he has ever delivered’ and John Rentoul wasn’t impressed by its ‘cliché-wridden verbiage.’ The speech did have one … Continue reading

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A Coherent Approach Is Necessary To Tackle Poverty Of Aspiration

The Prince’s Trust has published a fascinating piece of research today about youth poverty and what they are calling the “aspiration gap.”  They surveyed 2,311, 16-24 year olds.  377 of who were in poor backgrounds.  The findings are pretty stark.  … Continue reading

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