Tag Archives: Poverty and Social Mobility

The Government should adopt a radical new model of unemployment support combining retirement and rainy-day savings, underpinned by the power of social relationships, the Social Market Foundation think tank claims today (Monday 17 June).

The Government’s approach to reforming unemployment support is harming the UK’s future prosperity and will not equip the country for the global race, a leading economist warns today.

On Monday the Government launches Universal Credit, its flagship benefits scheme. What should we look out for?

A little-noticed announcement on public spending at last month’s Budget looks set to pit pensioners and working-age people against each other in the future over their share of the controversial welfare bill, new analysis from the Social Market Foundation reveals.

The stakes are extremely high for the Government as the Universal Credit nears the implementation stage. Get it right, and the Government can boast that it has cracked welfare reform. Get it wrong, and the chaos that will ensue could consign many to socia

On 27 November the Department for Work and Pensions will release figures on how well Work Programme providers have been performing since the scheme launched in June 2011. Ahead of this the Social Market Foundation has produced a short briefing on the Work Programme.

Without significant improvements, new “laissez-faire” benefit reforms risk pushing families into debt and undermining the Government’s own aims to boost individuals’ personal responsibility and financial resilience, a think tank has said today (Monday 17 September).

The Social Market Foundation's response to the 2012 Budget.

George Osborne should use the Budget to bring forward the unidentified £15bn of austerity measures that have to be made in the next parliament, and spend the extra £50bn this would save over four years to stimulate the economy and cut unemployment through