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Monday December 08, 2003 00:16 by Oona deathlist
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Spare a thought for families homeless at christmas.
Half of all registered homeless people are women and children.
70% of all homeless people are women. There are over 300,000 people homeless. The great majority of people earning the minimum wage are women. Statistics from Shelter and the National council for One parent families. Children are 75% more likely to grow up in absolute poverty if they live with a lone mother. This is because welfare benefits such as income support are set so low.
Women and children who are lucky enough to get into a hostel, must wait up to 2 years before being allocated a council house.
One lone mother's account of trying to escape the downward spiral of poverty, Is that of Charlotte Armstrong featured in the guardian article 'what an education'. Charlotte wanted a university degree, eventually a well paid job, a future for herself and her daughter, but everykind of obstacle blocked her path. Charlotte had initially wanted to take a low paid job, to support herself, but being a lone parent could not afford to pay for creche facilities for her daughter, after paying transport, living and rental costs. Charlotte then decided to do a degree, in order to get a well paid job to support herself and her daughter. As you would expect a university grant,doesn't stretch as far as covering child care, transport and other living costs. If you're living in private rental property, a university grant that can barely sustain one student, will not stretch to cover 2 people or a family, such as women and children. If you choose to do a full time degree course, you are not entitled to claim income support. As a lone parent you cannot take up a low paid job to supplement the university grant because you will have to pay for creche facilities in order to do the low paid job. Tragically Charlotte's daughter became desperately ill, forcing charlotte to discontinue her studies, 'my daughter needed me, more than I needed my exams'. Eventually Charlotte found herself and her daughter homeless, unable to juggle the rent, transport and child care costs. The establishment still believes that poverty is caused by reckless spending on superluous items rather than the trap of low welfare benefits, low wages and higher living costs. People live in poverty because they are deprived of opportunities, mostly the opportunity to go through education, whether or not they have children, and because most local employment is poorly paid often at the the minimum wage. The government has spent at least £8billion on going to war in Iraq, yet it claims that to pay decent wages to public sector workers would bankrupt the country. We cannot claim to live in an equal society when a third of children live in poverty.
These issues gave rise to Charlotte joining the Lone parent campaign group in Basildon, which raises support for localised, affordable childcare, the return of council housing, greater access for women with children to further and higher education, an end to mother and child homelessness, increases in income support and immediate support for victims of domestic violence.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2What is the solution?
More and more people around the world are coming to the conclusion that the most direct way to end poverty is with a guaranteed livable income. It would especially benefit women who make up 70% of the world's poor and do most of the world's unpaid work.
Some groups call it Basic Income, some Citizen's Dividend, others call it guaranteed annual income.
We call it "Livable" to emphasize that it would have to be at a level high enough for health and well-being.
It would be cheaper than the current system as the costs of poverty are very high in health and social problems.
Martin Luther King came to this conclusion in 1968
http://www.progress.org/dividend/cdking.html
"I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income."
and Ireland has a right to the safe development of her future generations.
but that right is more properly expressed as a "duty".
oughtn't to be dream. Yet more Irish people entered impossible to clear debts mostly related to housing in 2003 than at any stage since 1999.