Alan Milburn’s resignation at the weekend as the chairman of the Social Mobility Commission came with a warning about the “bandwidth” of government to create a fairer country and a lack of progress on the burning injustices the prime minister wanted to address. But far from progress on these injustices, things are actually getting worse. As our new state of the nation report UK Poverty 2017 reveals today, for the first time in 20 years — and 10 years on from the financial crisis — we are in the grip of sustained rises in poverty across all ages. After falls over the past two decades, child poverty and pensioner poverty are rising, hitting 30 per cent and 16 per cent respectively last year. Almost 400,000…

Source: The Times December 04, 2017 00:02 UTC