Blog posts by Chris Goulden

Iain Duncan’s Smith speech on measuring child poverty today focused on addiction. While it’s a serious problem, Chris Goulden argues there is much more to poverty than addiction.

We need an evidence-based anti-poverty strategy rather than arguments over Tax Credits or Universal Credit, argues Chris Goulden.

Is work the best route out of poverty? This cliché has been pinging around again following Iain Duncan Smith’s interview yesterday, where he said that unemployed people need “to learn that it's the right thing to go to work”. On the face of it, the answer is a clear yes but if you look more closely at the evidence, it’s only a half-truth.

Attitudes of the British people are hardening towards benefits and those claiming it. That's the message from this year’s British Social Attitudes Survey.