{"id":3824,"date":"2018-11-30T14:46:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T14:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=3824"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:05","slug":"un-envoy-says-austerity-has-inflicted-misery-on-uk-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2018\/11\/30\/un-envoy-says-austerity-has-inflicted-misery-on-uk-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"UN envoy says austerity has inflicted misery on UK citizens\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week comments from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2018\/nov\/16\/key-points-un-envoy-philip-alston-report-poverty-britain-uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sir Philip Alston UN Envoy on Poverty<\/a>\u00a0about inequality in the UK were widely reported.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2018\/nov\/16\/key-points-un-envoy-philip-alston-report-poverty-britain-uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Guardian summarised the main points<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But what are the facts?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/EN\/NewsEvents\/Pages\/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=23881&amp;LangID=E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">actual press release from United Nations Office for Human Rights<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/statistics\/households-below-average-income-199495-to-201617\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Office for National Statistics reports on families below average income.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>General information on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/peoplepopulationandcommunity\/personalandhouseholdfinances\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">personal income, debt and household finances.\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/fuel-poverty-statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Information and data on fuel poverty in the UK<\/a><\/li>\n<li>In a blog posting.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialwatch.org\/node\/18079\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr Koldo Casla Just Fair comments on whether inequality is rising or falling.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifs.org.uk\/publications\/13075\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2018<\/a>&#8211; IFS report.\u00a0This considers in work poverty, pensioner incomes examining changes in the last\u00a0few years.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpag.org.uk\/content\/child-poverty-facts-and-figures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Child Poverty Action Group\u00a0<\/a>has facts on recent changes in child poverty in the UK. It also has information on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpag.org.uk\/content\/universal-credit-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">negative impact of universal credit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/england.shelter.org.uk\/campaigns_\/why_we_campaign\/housing_facts_and_figures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shelter has information on homelessness and access to housing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trusselltrust.org\/news-and-blog\/latest-stats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trussell Trust has information on Food bank usage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week comments from\u00a0Sir Philip Alston UN Envoy on Poverty\u00a0about inequality in the UK were widely reported.\u00a0The Guardian summarised the main points But what are the facts? Read the\u00a0actual press release from United Nations Office for Human Rights Office for National Statistics reports on families below average income. General information on\u00a0personal income, debt and household [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,13,15],"tags":[242,72,93,94],"class_list":["post-3824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-finance","category-politics","category-sociology","tag-politics","tag-poverty","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3879,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824\/revisions\/3879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}