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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 […] View resource Media briefing A Tale of Two Britains: Inequality in the UK 17/03/2014 1 documents 4 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Finance Inequality Poverty in the UK Taxation UK poverty Welfare Overview 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 […] View resource Research report Truth and Lies about Poverty: Ending comfortable myths about poverty 10/12/2013 2 documents 34 pages long Languages: English, Welsh Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Discrimination Media Poverty in the UK Social protection UK poverty Welfare Overview 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 […] View resource 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 Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Active citizenship Advocacy Campaigning Civil society Debt Debt relief Economic empowerment Economic growth Finance Financial crisis Investment Livelihoods Poverty in the UK Social protection Taxation UK poverty World Bank and IMF Overview 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 […] View resource Guidelines and toolkits The Sustainable Livelihoods Approach: Toolkit for Wales 01/07/2013 2 documents 55 pages long Languages: English, Welsh Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Community building Development methods Livelihoods Participation Poverty in the UK Sustainable livelihoods approach UK poverty Overview 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 […] View resource Briefing paper Our Economy: Towards a new prosperity 20/06/2013 1 documents 72 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Business Civil society Collective enterprise Community building Corporate responsibility Economic empowerment Economic growth Housing Labour standards Livelihoods Poverty in the UK Social enterprise Social protection Sustainable livelihoods approach UK poverty Welfare Overview 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 […] View resource Research report Oxfam Humankind Index: The new measure of Scotland’s Prosperity, second results 10/06/2013 1 documents 15 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Advocacy Campaigning Civil society Economic empowerment Economic growth Health systems Housing Inequality Livelihoods Local Government Participation Poverty in the UK Social protection UK poverty Welfare Overview 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 […] View resource Research report Walking the Breadline: The scandal of food poverty in 21st-century Britain 30/05/2013 1 documents 20 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Food security Poverty in the UK UK poverty Overview 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 […] View resource Issue briefing Summary of Oxfam response to UK government Measuring Child Poverty consultation 15/02/2013 1 documents 15 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Poverty in the UK UK poverty Wellbeing Overview 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. […] View resource Media briefing How Tackling Tax Evasion Could Help Overcome Poverty in the UK 31/01/2013 1 documents 6 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Inequality Media Poverty in the UK Taxation Transparency UK poverty Welfare Overview 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 […] View resource Posts navigation Prev page Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Next page Spotted an error? Let us know