Evans heads up the Global Poverty project, a global human rights organisation that aims to eradicate world poverty.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies calculates that absolute child poverty projected to stand at 27.2% by 2020/21, compared with the 5% target prescribed by law.
Marcus, who set up the company in October, is a former intern at the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, and has also worked for a poverty project and in corporate communications.
When the producers of the "Why Poverty?" project invited me to contribute, I decided to make a short film to show what happens in these banks — the sleeping homeless people and the various reactions of those who encounter them.
In a report, conducted for the Northern Ireland executive but held to describe the position in the UK as a whole, the IFS says "tax and benefit reforms introduced since April 2010 can account for almost all of the increases in child poverty projected over the next few years".
In the report, which was conducted for the Northern Ireland executive but considered a pan-UK position, the institute says warns the coalition that "tax and benefit reforms introduced since April 2010 can account for almost all of the increases in child poverty projected over the next few years".
crvfanatic: The Global Poverty Project: same numbers, but great presentation.
irisand: Very, very compelling presentation from Hugh Evans at the global poverty project.
Through his Bicycles Against Poverty Project (BAPP) Douglas Mukodo Odunga (also known as "Francis") is empowering impoverished communities near Nairobi, Kenya by providing them with affordable, locally-made bicycles, and bicycle maintenance training.
The new book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Harvard University sociology professor and Justice and Poverty Project co-director Matthew Desmond, is calling renewed and urgently needed attention to a tragic eviction cycle invisible to many but all too familiar to families trapped in the cruel prison of poverty.
