Wales 2011 – One in Four in Poverty…and it’s getting worse.

Quoting the Rowntree Foundation Press Release below: New Joseph Rowntree Foundation research released today shows that meeting the Welsh Government’s target of eradicating child poverty by 2020 will mean the rate has to fall four times more quickly over the next ten years than it did over the last decade. The latest figures also show almost one in four people in Wales across all age groups – 680,000 – are in poverty. The research, carried out by Anushree Parekh and …

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Andrew Dilnot offers a clever solution to a deeply embedded problem, but…

One, it does not apply to Northern Ireland, and two the costs attached may prevent the current Lib Dem Conservative coalition from bring it in… So what’s the problem? In an unwieldly phrase: the under regulated economic burden of long term illness falling directly upon the personal estate of those affected. Emma Stone at the Rowntree Foundation which commissioned the report: The big surprise in today’s report is the extended means test for residential (not home-based) care. In 2007, JRF …

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