A UBI pilot in Wales gives a sum of money to young people leaving the care system. But it won’t be rolled out beyond its trial period.
- Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Salford
Millions of people experiencing food poverty turn to food banks, and the number is growing.
Your view depends on whether you see poverty as the result of individual or policy failings.
Food poverty is increasingly generating child victims, whose only salvation comes from donations of emergency food provisions.
Food banks should not be “normal” and yet they are rapidly becoming an accepted substitute for welfare in the UK.
Food banks feed more than just society’s vulnerable members.
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