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Life on the line? Life expectancy and where we live

Kingsley Purdam By Kingsley Purdam Filed Under: All posts Posted: October 7, 2016

Researchers at The University of Manchester have mapped estimates of life expectancy and years lived healthily to the stops on the local tram network. Kingsley Purdam, who led the research, says the differences between areas in the UK are a human rights issue. Devolution and living longer Greater Manchester is home to a population of […]

Tagged With: devolution, health policy, inequality, life expectancy, Social Statistics, socio-economic attainment gap

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What is the impact of the ‘bedroom tax’ on children and schools?

Ruth Lupton By Ruth Lupton Filed Under: Featured Posted: April 15, 2014

A year on from the introduction of the ‘bedroom tax’, Prof Ruth Lupton argues that reducing the incomes of poor families and creating instability for poor children is a nonsensical policy for a government committed to closing the socio-economic attainment gap. One of the Coalition government’s most controversial welfare reform policies, the so-called ‘bedroom tax’, […]

Tagged With: bedroom tax, children, education, housing benefit, inequality, MIE, schools, socio-economic attainment gap

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