Archive for January, 2014

Food banks and gender article

Posted: January 27, 2014 in articles
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Building on my report on Food banks, I wrote up a gendered analysis for Open Democracy.

“The reasons why up to 500,000 people in the UK need emergency food aid are inherently gendered.  Low pay, the rise in food prices, and punitive welfare reforms work in tandem with regressive Tory gender policies to push women and the poor to the brink.” Read the full article here.