Comments on: We’ve been framed….

By: alan

alan — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:22:29 +0000

have you been reading http://newsframes.wordpress.com?

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A flourishing and happy society? « North East Child Poverty — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:51:32 +0000

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By: Stephen Crossley

Stephen Crossley — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:17:05 +0000

Thanks Phil, I abolutely agree. The way poverty and welfare is measured and reported often doesn’t help I think – point in time snapshots fail to emphasise the dynamics and the flow between being in and out of work and/or being in or out of poverty. I know JRF have done work on the dynamics of poverty and ‘recurrent’ poverty which is really helpful – we need to get more people to understand that the ‘poor’ are not a separate, distinct section of society.

By: Phil Morcom

Phil Morcom — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 07:58:43 +0000

Interesting post Steve. And then welfare gets split even more in speeches to whittle down the ‘deserving’ vs ‘undeserving’. So pensioners are OK to get universal benefits, but not large families, for instance. There’s a lot of work to be done to have a much more balanced media portrayal of the realities of life on benefits.