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Family misfortunes: the links between child and pensioner poverty
- Authors:
- END CHILD POVERTY, AGE CONCERN ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 19p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The report argues that poor children are tomorrow’s poor pensioners. Poor children have decreased life chances – they are more likely to leave school at a young age with fewer qualifications, more likely to experience unemployment as a young adult, more likely to earn a lower wage and therefore less likely to face old age with personal savings and an adequate pension. Equally older people are often central to helping their families stay out of poverty or cope with the effects of poverty. Many families rely on grandparent childcare each week and lone parent families may be particularly likely to depend on older family members for support.
Social security
- Author:
- VAUX Gary
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 17, April 2004, pp.65-72.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Looks at a number of research studies which highlight how difficult it can be to reduce social exclusion by improving benefit take-up.
Approaching retirement: social divisions, welfare and exclusion
- Author:
- MANN Kirk
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 280p.,diags.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Tackles issues around income in retirement from a sociological perspective. Contains chapters on: social divisions, exclusion and retirement; two versions of political economy, ease and plenty or immerseration and crisis; consumption, consumers and choice; post work and post structuralism; risk and post traditional welfare; and comparative measures of 'successful retirement', including comparisons with other countries.
Hard times: a study of pensioner poverty
- Author:
- WHETSTONE Maxine
- Publisher:
- Centre for Policy on Ageing/Nestle Family Monitor
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 61p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
In spite of the affluence amongst people over 65, a quarter of all pensioners have no other resources than a state pension and income support. This report examines the reality of life on a low income in older age and the financial choices that have to be made. Through lack of money pensioners are not only unable to purchase certain commodities, they are unable to participate in social activities others take for granted.
Social exclusion: is labour working?
- Author:
- CRAIG Gary
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.10.01, 2001, pp.36-38.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author, professor of social justice at the University of Hull, critically evaluates the government's action on poverty.
Social policy review 12
- Editors:
- DEAN Hartley, SKYES Robert, WOODS Roberta
- Publisher:
- Social Policy Association
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 372p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Collection of essays on social policy with sections on: rethinking policy in the welfare-to-work state; substantive policy developments in the UK; and social exclusion in a global context.