Thursday, October 28, 2010

UK: Single Parents, Housing Benefits Cut


The Welfare Working Group in Wellington is looking at the UK, US, Australian and Canadian models of welfare, so we should beware. Here's what they are doing in the UK:

Women Pay: Female single parents pay the most for the male bankers'crisis http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/oct/25/view-from-a-broad-single-parents

Economic Cleansing:
Benefits cut, rents up: this is Britain's housing time bomb

A final solution for the poor – send them to distant dumping grounds where there are no jobs http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/oct/25/benefits-cut-rents-up-housing-time-bomb


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