For anyone who says politics doesn’t matter, last week’s exchanges on social mobility shows they’re wrong. It also shows that, despite the difficulties, getting evidence into the debate is essential if we’re to make progress. And we do need to…

This is a big week for a small tax. The Robin Hood Tax Global Week of Action is in full swing and with major developments in the USA and Europe this truly tiny tax is increasingly becoming more likely. The…

There is only one way that poverty in Wales is going, and that is up.  Be it child poverty, in-work poverty, pensioner poverty, rural poverty or any of the other sub-categories of poverty invented by lobby groups, poverty is here…

Figures published by the Department for Work and Pensions show that benefit fraud accounts for less than 1 per cent of the total benefit bill, said Bevan Foundation Director Victoria Winckler. Commenting in the Western Mail on 17th May 2012,…

Poverty in Wales is set to increase dramatically.  Already at high levels, a vicious combination of static wages, cuts to benefits and shortage of jobs could see the numbers of people on low incomes soar. But as cuts bite it’s…