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Research report

Multiple Cuts for the Poorest Families: 1.75 million of the poorest families have seen their benefits cut to date due to welfare reform

22/04/2014

2 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

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For a second year in a row, benefits values have increased below prices. At the same time, council tax support and housing benefit have been cut for 1.75 million of the poorest families in the UK. This leaves affected families with even less money to pay for essentials such as food, heating and transport. The […]

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Media briefing

A Tale of Two Britains: Inequality in the UK

17/03/2014

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Inequality is a growing problem in the UK. While austerity measures in Britain continue to hit the poorest families hardest, a wealthy elite has seen their incomes spiral upwards, exacerbating income inequality which has grown under successive governments over the last quarter of a century. Today, the five richest families in the UK are wealthier […]

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Research report

Truth and Lies about Poverty: Ending comfortable myths about poverty

10/12/2013

2 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English, Welsh

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Many people today believe that the key factors driving poverty in the UK are the personal failings of the poor – especially ‘idleness’. In this report, we expose the most prominent myths about poverty in the UK, which are frequently reinforced by politicians and the media. These myths allow the poor to be blamed for […]

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Briefing paper

A Cautionary Tale: The true cost of austerity and inequality in Europe

12/09/2013

32 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish

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European austerity programmes have dismantled the mechanisms that reduce inequality and enable equitable growth. With inequality and poverty on the rise, Europe is facing a lost decade. An additional 15 to 25 million people across Europe could face the prospect of living in poverty by 2025 if austerity measures continue. Oxfam knows this because it […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

The Sustainable Livelihoods Approach: Toolkit for Wales

01/07/2013

2 documents

55 pages long

Languages: English, Welsh

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The Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) is a method of analysing and changing the lives of people experiencing poverty and disadvantage. It is a participatory approach based on the recognition that all people have abilities and assets that can be developed to help them improve their lives. Oxfam has already supported community development organisations to apply […]

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Briefing paper

Our Economy: Towards a new prosperity

20/06/2013

1 documents

72 pages long

Languages: English

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For too many Scots, the existing economic model is failing. Far from improving their lives, it traps them in a cycle of economic hardship. Yet it is possible to overcome poverty, both in Scotland and across the UK – many of the solutions already exist, hidden within the very communities hit hardest by an economic […]

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Research report

Oxfam Humankind Index: The new measure of Scotland’s Prosperity, second results

10/06/2013

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

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Last year, Oxfam Scotland came up with the Oxfam Humankind Index, a new way of measuring what makes a good life. The aim of the index is to assess Scotland’s prosperity through a holistic and more representative measure of progress, that goes beyond the dominant economic model, which relies on Gross Domestic Product as the […]

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Research report

Walking the Breadline: The scandal of food poverty in 21st-century Britain

30/05/2013

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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Although the UK is the seventh richest country in the world, many people struggle to afford even the most essential of goods: food. In this briefing, Church Action on Poverty and Oxfam highlight the rise in food poverty in the UK, where over 500,000 are now thought to be reliant on food parcels. Figures from […]

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Issue briefing

Summary of Oxfam response to UK government Measuring Child Poverty consultation

15/02/2013

1 documents

15 pages long

Languages: English

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In November 2012, the Department of Work and Pensions of the UK Government launched a consultation in order to design a better measurement of child poverty in the UK. Oxfam submitted a response in which we highlight that income and relative poverty must remain at the core of any measurement of poverty in the UK. […]

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Media briefing

How Tackling Tax Evasion Could Help Overcome Poverty in the UK

31/01/2013

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

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The equivalent of nearly £200 per household is being lost through illegal tax evasion, as 220,000 people in the UK are forced to go to charity foodbanks, according to this Oxfam media briefing. Whilst many people in the UK are submitting their tax returns today, new figures from Oxfam reveal that illegal tax evasion by […]

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