{"id":2086,"date":"2015-10-15T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T10:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/cgi-bin\/weblog_basic\/index.php?p=2086"},"modified":"2015-10-15T12:00:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T10:00:52","slug":"government-focus-on-the-causes-of-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/?p=2086","title":{"rendered":"Government focus on the causes of poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&rsquo;s an interesting article by Tim Montgomerie in The Times of 15th October, 2015 on <\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00ab\u00a0Lies, damned lies and poverty statistics\u00a0\u00bb:<strong><\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00ab\u00a0The Tory plan is to supplement income-based measures of poverty with assessments of ?life chances?. Applying the five pathways to poverty that the Centre for Social Justice popularised, <strong>ministers will be required to focus on joblessness, educational failure, family breakdown, indebtedness and addiction as the causes of poverty.\u00a0\u00bb <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00ab\u00a0The illusion that poverty is in retreat just because benefits have been increased by 2, 5 or 10 per cent will be buried. Poverty only retreats on a sustainable basis if the private sector creates jobs, if pupils acquire real skills and if more children live in happy, stable homes. There will no longer just be a speedometer on the welfare dashboard ? there?ll be a fuel gauge, a sat-nav and a lot more warning lights. The drive against poverty will, it is hoped, get a good deal more sophisticated.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/opinion\/columnists\/article4586139.ece?shareToken=84a3405c655dda081c72e17de6244e25\">http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/opinion\/columnists\/article4586139.ece?shareToken=84a3405c655dda081c72e17de6244e25<br \/>\n <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&rsquo;s an interesting article by Tim Montgomerie in The Times of 15th October, 2015 on \u00ab\u00a0Lies, damned lies and poverty statistics\u00a0\u00bb: \u00ab\u00a0The Tory plan is to supplement income-based measures of poverty with assessments of ?life chances?. Applying the five pathways to poverty that the Centre for Social Justice popularised, ministers will be required to focus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287,44,58,166],"tags":[171,289,288],"class_list":["post-2086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-causes-of-poverty","category-fairness","category-social-welfare-benefits","category-welfare-reform-fact-vs-fiction","tag-conservative-party","tag-inequality","tag-poverty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}