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Steps in the Right Direction but By Design?
The government may just have a cunning plan. I think they could afford to share it more widely. I think…
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We Don’t Need No (Financial) Education
If Quids in! ran a school, we wouldn’t talk about financial education at all. The kids don’t care about it and teachers…
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Digitally Disabled
Point 5 of Dying for Change, the pre-election paper we published, called on policy makers and service delivery agencies to check…
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Dying for Change – A People’s Manifesto
In researching electoral campaigning on the needs of people on low incomes for the Quids In Professional Network, I noticed…
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Remember, Remember, It’s a Privileged Agenda
It’s just possible the election belongs to the Tories, if they can keep hold of it. That’s not to say…
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If You Thought the Bedroom Tax was Bad…
Last August a coroner concluded that the threat of eviction or hardship through increased housing costs, on account of new…
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Let Them Eat Broadband
The ‘digital by default’ agenda threatens to make inequality worse, not better, unless it is rolled out at the right…
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Banking on the Wrong Stuff?
In January, the City of London staged a financial inclusion conference: Next Move Forward. Speakers included the Archbishop of Canterbury…
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Mental Health
It seems mental health might be getting a fairer hearing right now. According to Dean Burnett in the Guardian, there is…
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The Hunger Games
Last month I blogged about helping people keep fit and fed. Earlier this year, we found over half of Quids in! readers who…