Blog Posts - Poverty

Dawn Butler (Brent Central) and Tulip Siddiq (Hampstead & Kilburn) defied the Labour whip last night and joined 46 other Labour MPs in voting against the Welfare Reform Bill. Liberal Democrat MPs also voted against.Tulip Siddiq had signalled her...

Does anyone benefit from the budget? I put in my 'average' family circumstances, age, 2 children etc. to the BBC's budget calculator, and had a play around with some figures Salary £10,000   lose £1484 Salary £15,000    lose £1182  (this is...

Being poor is neutral. It does not make one better or worse intrinsically. In the mission field we handle matters concerning the poor. Some missionaries spend their whole mission life … Continue reading →...

It would be hard for anyone to prove that our world isn’t embroiled in multiple, interwoven crises…  Do you think fiction writers should deal with this in their work? Certainly, there have been plenty of dystopian novels and novels that...

Brent Friends of the Earth have issued the following account of their meeting with Dawn Butler, Labour, Brent Central, when they lobbied her over Climate Change.  Six members of Brent Friends of the Earth (Brent FoE) met with Brent Central MP D...

A billion people still live on less than $1.25 a day. It’s a slowly decreasing number, and there are any number of programmes to accelerate that decline. One of the most straightforward is cash transfers – just giving poor people a sum of...

It is a short life, a busy life, we don't get time for ourselves let alone others. Then there are small acts of kindness that matter a lot, just minor things that can make someone's day. Helping someone or bringing a smile on someone's face is not th...

Contents from freedom 35 blog. (www.freedomthirtyfiveblog.com) Fast food and other low wage earners are often under-appreciated and misunderstood. But they are an important part of the economy. Not only do they make breakfast and coffee for other peo...

Beyond satire! The BBC has commissioned Britain's Hardest Grafter, a "game" series described as "Benefits Street meets The Hunger Games" which pitches the poorest among us — the unemployed and the low-paid — against each other for a cash prize. T...

Scripture For The Day.2 Corinthians 5:4 While we live in these earthly bodies, we groan and sigh, but it's not that we want to die and get rid of these bodies that clothe us. Rather, we want to put on our new bodies so that these dying bodies will be...

Review of Greg Smith Faith, Progressive Localism and the Hol(e)y Welfare Safety Net You wait weeks for a report on faith and welfare and then two come along at once. Actually, there have been plenty, and with the re-election of the Conservatives, I'...

The are hundreds of things responsible for the riots in Baltimore. Here are 13.

Quite revealing is the steep decline in the poverty rate in the years before the initiation of a single one of President Johnson's poverty programs. That is to say, JFK's tax cuts were helping the poor just fine without any need for government handou...

(Updated 8:03 a.m., May 21) After the Commission on Higher Education approved to hike tuition and school fees of more than 300 universities and colleges, a senator is pushing to make tuition and other payments for tertiary education tax-deductible. S...

DJI Drones, among many others from China, are being used to provide poverty aid, emergency services, and delivery tea There is a real opportunity for the todays global youth to make a difference by using their comfort level with technology, drones sp...

The poorest cities in America are run by Liberals. Coincidence or inevitable consequence?

Do you have a self limiting belief system about yourself? I hate to say this but most people have been brainwashed to have a poor mentality. How many times have you heard people say things like: It would be nice if I had the time to exercise or I wou...

Have any readers been following what’s been going on in Baltimore as it concerns the protests and riots over the death of Freddie Gray? Do Chicago-area readers think such civil strife could happen here someday? It’s happened before. And consideri...

Over the past several months, as a result of their lockout from capital markets, Greek banks’ reliance on the ECB’s Emergency Liquidity Assistance has soared, and at last check was somewhere in the mid-€70 billion range. The conventional w...

According to an article on the Al Jazeera website -What Would Jesus Do About Tax Policy?- Jesus wants us to pay more taxes to the government.After years of debate and study "..........the Presbyterian Church USA, has come out with a detailed report t...

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