In his landmark report 75 years ago,Sir William Beveridge used head and heart to address Britain’s inequalities. No wonder Tories undermine himHardly a week passes without a novel report into Britain’s yawning social divide. And yawning is the response from the government and many voters who choose not to believe it, blame the poor themselves, and just don’t care that much.
Yesterday the Joseph Rowntree Foundaton reported an extra 400000 children and 300000 more pensioners falling into poverty since 2013,the day after the Social Mobility Commission resigned en masse, in protest at the government binning its every recommendation. This follows the Institute for Fiscal Studies warning that 37% of children will drop below the government’s own poverty line by 2021.
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Source: guardian.co.uk