The Trussell trust reveals, powerfully, an inconvenient truth: that welfare cuts (bedroom tax, the benefit cap), welfare reform (sanctions and increased conditionality, and local welfare) and bureaucratic inefficiency (benefit delays) cause hundreds of thousands of people on low-incomes to go hungry and become dependent on emergency food aid.
Truth of welfare numbers might be the first casualty in the war of welfare, but as a consequence, a close second are the poorest in our society.
Napoleon had his faults, but when deciding whether he was an overall force of good or bad in the world I say "Vive l'empereur!"Nicholas Friederich Alexandria, VirginiaThe truth about welfareSIR – "Welfare wedgie" (October 4th) mentioned a British government finding that voters support its policy of capping welfare benefits by five to one.
The truth is, our welfare reforms will improve the lives of some of the poorest families in our communities, with the Universal Credit making three million household better off and lifting hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty.
Perkins claimed he had been "no-platformed", while the Daily Mail and the Spectator said he had been silenced for "daring to tell the truth" about the welfare state.
It has been observed, for example, that virtually every society has well-established norms dealing with such matters as family organization and individual duties, sexual activity, property rights, personal welfare, truth telling, and promise keeping, but not all societies have evolved the same norms for these various aspects of human conduct.
Just check out the newspapers, preferably in a movie-style montage sequence, the alarming headlines dropping in-frame with a thud, one after the other: "CRISIS IN THE INNER CITY!"; "WHITHER ALL THE BABY DADDIES"; "THE TRUTH ABOUT THE WELFARE STATE: THEY JUST DON'T WANT TO WORK"; "NOT LIKE IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS".
"The truth is, our welfare reforms will improve the lives of some of the poorest families in our communities.
As much as we might romanticize the steeplechase (think young Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet) and racetracks as Damon Runyon did, the truth about the welfare of horses used for sport is mixed at best.
One of the painful truths of child welfare work is that the best agencies can make terrible mistakes.
