Press Releases
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| Budget Blow for Poor Scots The Poverty Alliance responds to the Coalition Government's emergency budget (22 June 2010) |
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| Mr Chancellor, You think you've got problems! The Chancellor of the Exchequer may think the country’s finances are a mess but his problems are nothing to the weekly agony faced by people on low incomes. So says campaigners from the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) in the UK who have taken the unprecedented step of directing people struggling to make ends meet to write to the Chancellor (19 June 2010). |
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| Cuts to Scottish Poverty Budget Poverty Alliance response to the cuts in the budget for the Scottish anti-poverty framework (8 June 2010) |
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| Poverty Alliance reponds to Queens Speech The Poverty Alliance responds to the UK Government's new agenda for the coming session in Parliament (25 May 2010) |
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| Candidates Condemed for Silence on Poverty Scottish Candidates at the general election have been condemed for their silence on poverty issues during election campaign. Only a handful of Prospective Parliamentary Candidates have responded to a survey by the Poverty Alliance on what their views are on key poverty issues (5 May 2010) |
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| Warning of Low Pay Increase A ‘perfect storm’ of cuts in public spending and a more punitive welfare system could lead to an increase in the number of low paid workers in Scotland and push more families and children into poverty. The warning comes at a major conference as the Scottish Living Wage Campaign publishes a report on low pay in Scotland and up-rates the Scottish living wage from £7.00 to £7.15 per hour. (27 May 2010) |
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| SCoWR reponds to Queens Speech Commenting on the announcement in the Queens Speech of yet another Welfare Reform Bill, the Scottish Campaign on Welfare Reform have welcomed the focus on a radical simplification of the benefits system - but only as long as that doesn’t result in financial losers, warning that cuts by the back door would be vigorously opposed. |
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| Scottish Enterprise Points the Way on Living Wage Scottish Enterprise today became the latest employer to be given a Stage 1 Scottish Living Wage Employer Award following the announcement that all directly employed staff are to be paid above £7 an hour. (19.03.10) |
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| SCOWR hits out at “pay for snitching” proposal Poverty Alliance along with other members of the Scottish Campaign on Welfare Reform have hit out at proposals by Jim Murphy to pay for “snitching" on benefit cheats, arguing that the extent of benefit fraud is exaggerated whilst the real issues like lack of investment good quality jobs and the below poverty level benefits have been ignored. |
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| POVERTY ALLIANCE WELCOMES NEW CHILD POVERTY BILL The new bill will require the UK government to prepare a UK wide strategy to tackle child poverty - with the aim of reducing the numbers of children in poverty in the UK to less than 10% by 2020. |
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