EAPN Spain: Mark the X and support people with addictions
25/06/2014 – Thanks to those who marked the “X Solidarity” box on their tax sheet, a total of 373,705 people will benefit over 2014 programs and services to meet the…
The Poverty Alliance (EAPN Scotland): New Statistics Show Increasing In-Work Poverty in Scotland
01/07/2014 – Today’s figures published by the Scottish Government on Poverty and Inequality show a rise in the number of people in Scotland living in poverty, and highlights the continuing increase in in-work poverty. In 2012/13, 16 per cent of people in Scotland were living in poverty, compared with 14 per cent the previous year. In real terms, this means that there are now 820,000 individuals are now living in poverty in Scotland.
EAPN Poland holds GA and debate on housing
24/06/2014 – EAPN Poland held its GA, where a new executive committee was elected. The GA was followed by a debate on housing in the context of poverty and social…
Poverty Alliance Responds to New Deprivation Study
19/06/2014 – The Poverty Alliance has responded to figures published today by Poverty and Social Exclusion (PSE) in the UK. The figures show that almost one in five people in Scotland are multiply deprived i.e. suffering from three or more measures of poverty such as a lack of food, heating and clothing.
Poverty Alliance welcomes report from Expert Working Group on Welfare Reform
04/06/2014 – The Poverty Alliance has responded to the report published today by the Expert Working Group on Welfare Reform. The Group was established to advise the Scottish Government on the principles that should underpin the welfare system in an independent Scotland. Their first report looked at the practicalities of delivering pensions and social security payments.
EAPN Spain: 2014 National Reform Programmes and the Recommendation of the European Council
The European Council gives warning to Spain regarding falling income and rising poverty and inequality
03/06/2014 – EAPN Spain has recently discovered the Recommendations of the European Council on the Spanish Government’s NRP. First, the measures outlined will involve a higher level of cuts in order to keep adjusting the deficit. If the implementation of this recommendation does not take into account the negative social impacts, inequality rates, adult and youth unemployment, poverty and social exclusion rates will inevitably keep rising. Second, the Council is aware of the acute social problems in Spain, and is asking the Spanish Government to may more attention to it.
CILAP (EAPN Italy): Seminar on local development
Bitonto, June 6th 2014. CILAP EAPN ITALIA in cooperation with the local School District and the Municipality organizes the seminar, “Sviluppo armonioso del territorio: Rigeneare Comunità Coltivando Saperi” (Local development – Regenerating the Communities Cultivating Knowledge”.
FNARS (member of EAPN France): press conference and mobilisation call on Government to put (back) vulnerable people at the heart of its agenda
Despite numerous alerts sent by organisations to the Government on the social difficulties throughout the country, the Collectif des Associations Unies (United organisations network) deplores the lack of consideration of the Government as to people living in poverty and in poor housing. As a result, the organisations part of the Collectif will mobilise next Monday, Whit Monday, a day “of solidarity”, calling on the Government to put (back( vulnerable people at the heart of its agenda.
EAPN Spain: Those who committed to a Social Europe
30/05/2014 – EAPN-ES commitment with citizens, especially the most vulnerable, is not only in the run up to European elections last May 25 work. During the campaign for a Europe free of poverty, social exclusion and inequality, more than 50 candidates of different political parties contesting the elections committed to achieving this goal.
EAPN Spain: Retouching statistical data relative poverty – 27.3% of Spain’s population lives at risk of poverty and social exclusion
28/05/2014 – Yesterday new data from INE Survey of Quality of Life ( CVD) were published. 2013 final data , with the headline “In the last year, the population at risk of poverty has fallen to 20.4 % compared to 20.8 % last year.” This holder contains two distortions. The first is the so-called statistical effect: poverty is called “relative ” because it is related to the level of the average household income. And in Spain , the average household income has done nothing but fall since 2008 , from 30,045 euros then to the 27,747 euros now. It decreased in 3.5 % only in the last year. That means the poverty line has moved down has well. That actually means that the less we earn, the poorer we are, … the lower the percentage of ” relative poverty”. But therefore, those on fixed income, such as pensioners and retirees, with households ‘theoretically” individual, have gone over that threshold, even if only of a few euros. With this calculation , in 2009 , 23.8 % of older people were in relative poverty and only only 12.7 % today ! Likewise, according to that calculation,child poverty has dropped since 2009,from 28.9% of those under 16 years, to 26.7 % now.