Policy & Research @resolvepoverty. Formerly @uclspp. Usual disclaimers apply. https://xitter.cf/t.co/75sLFZxj2f
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AM I A WRITING LUDDITE?
New post from me about AI writing: why I think we should be ruder about it, and how I might be wrong.
Read to the bottom for as clear-cut a case as I can make that the "Productive State" report was largely AI-written.
notes.archie-hall.com/p/am-i…
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✅ BURNHAM IN
Makerfield by-election result:
LAB: 54.8% (+9.6)
REF: 34.5% (+2.7)
RST: 6.8% (+6.8)
CON: 2.2% (-8.7)
GRN: 0.7% (-3.7)
LDEM: 0.4% (-6.4)
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Keir Starmer backs end of two child benefit cap and tells Treasury to find the money - my story for @ObserverUK observer.co.uk/news/national…
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🚀In a new article, Policy Officer @TPottrill outlines some of the key findings from our latest research, 'Mission Critical: The role of English regions and localities in a whole-system approach to tackling poverty.'
Take a read 👇 resolvepoverty.org/new-resea…
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👉 You can access the report now at: resolvepoverty.org/access-mi…
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🚀 We are pleased to today launch new research, 'Mission Critical: The role of English regions and localities in a whole-system approach to tackling poverty,' undertaken with the Local Authorities and the Cost of Living Emergency (LOCALE) project at the @UniOfYork.
ALT Graphic with blue background and Resolve Poverty and University of York logos in top left corner. There is white text reading 'New research out today: Mission Critical: The role of English regions and localities in a whole-system approach to tackling poverty.' On the right there is an illustration of three people greeting each other and shaking hands.
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📢 Join us at the launch of our forthcoming research on a whole-system approach to tackling poverty, undertaken with the Local Authorities and the Cost of Living Emergency (LOCALE) project at the @UniOfYork.
Learn more and book your place 👉 mailchi.mp/resolvepoverty.or…
ALT Mission critical: The role of English regions and localities in a whole-system approach to tackling poverty. Launch webinar: 7 May, 2pm-3:30pm.
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This weekend marks the 8th year the two-child limit to benefit payments has been in place. 1 child every 13 mins falls into poverty because of this policy.
The govt must scrap it in the upcoming Child Poverty Strategy. @EndChildPoverty
ALT More children are living in poverty since Labour came into power, as a result of the two-child limit. One child ever 13 mins. Or 109 children every day. 350,000 children will be lifted out of poverty if this is scrapped. End child poverty now.
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Read our response to the new child poverty figures in the @BigIssue 👇
Child poverty hits new record high – before Labour benefit cuts will push 50,000 more into hardship bigissue.com/news/social-jus…
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“The forthcoming Child Poverty Strategy must go beyond sticking-plaster solutions. We need to see real policy change that addresses the root issue and protects and supports low income households – for example, lifting the two-child limit and benefit cap."
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🚨 The @DWPgovuk has released its annual Households Below Average Income statistics, which show that child poverty has reached a record high – with 4.5 million children in the UK now below the poverty line. This figure is up from 3.6 million in 2010/11.
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As Rick Burgess of the @GMCDP wrote in our recent conference bulletin, "We urgently need to understand that sufficient income that covers the extra costs of disability is an investment in a socially just and exciting future."
Read in full 👉 resolvepoverty.org/wp-conten…
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⚠️ Today’s announced cuts to #DisabilityBenefits risk plunging more people into poverty.
The govt’s commitment to ‘break down barriers to opportunity’ is at odds with policies that reduce income for disabled people, who are more likely to experience poverty and barriers to work.
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Well it’s clear that I made the right decision to leave the Labour Party after 41 years membership!
Attacking the most vulnerable is never the answer!
Tax the mega rich and protect those in most need!
#welfare
Principles over Party
I know whose side I am on!
Heartbreaking!
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Some thoughts ahead of the Chancellor's #SpringStatement later today. Sticking to arbitrary fiscal rules is a choice & cutting spending is unlikely to deliver savings in the long run. Follow @NEF for updates and commentary during the day.
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Quite an extraordinary story.
And one that rather gives the lie to the idea that the Government’s cuts to disability benefits were driven by a moral mission about work. It’s about fiscal rules…
Exclusive with @Smyth_Chris
Rachel Reeves will announce further welfare cuts after the Office for Budget Responsibility told ministers their benefit reforms will save £1.6billion less than planned
The OBR rejected ministers' £5billion welfare savings estimate, putting it at £3.4billion
Reeves will announce that Universal Credit incapacity benefits for new claimants, which were halved in Kendall's original package, will now be frozen until 2030 as well rather than rising in line with inflation
There will also be a small reduction in the basic rate of UC in 2029
The moves will raise an extra £500milloon
Govt source says that the new cuts are in keeping with green paper
thetimes.com/article/f80da8c…
