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Subject: [New post] Does the new poverty measure fully capture disability poverty?
Ben Baumberg Geiger posted: "In recent years, we have seen fierce political battles over what poverty is, and the best way of measuring it. The Social Metrics Commission (SMC) is therefore a brave venture - to get a politically diverse group of people to agree how poverty should be m"
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In recent years, we have seen fierce political battles over what poverty is, and the best way of measuring it. The Social Metrics Commission<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.socialmetricscommission.org.uk%2F&data=02%7C01%7Chsx056%40coventry.ac.uk%7Cabdd0bf0eb9148c3e6c608d61d7e0549%7C4b18ab9a37654abeac7c0e0d398afd4f%7C0%7C0%7C636728824436506478&sdata=an1lm0%2F8QwYIGnZvnRfv4RCnhwHxlY8EXl0PQy1puVo%3D&reserved=0> (SMC) is therefore a brave venture - to get a politically diverse group<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.socialmetricscommission.org.uk%2Fabout%2Four-people%2F&data=02%7C01%7Chsx056%40coventry.ac.uk%7Cabdd0bf0eb9148c3e6c608d61d7e0549%7C4b18ab9a37654abeac7c0e0d398afd4f%7C0%7C0%7C636728824436506478&sdata=e2rTgElGMrM5ahY85AdePy5lIwvDe%2BbHDgK0FLVcG7Y%3D&reserved=0> of people to agree how poverty should be measured in the UK, led by one of Iain Duncan Smith's former special advisers, but well-represented by a host of the-great-and-the-good from the Labour years. Amazingly this seems to have succeeded, with this week's SMC report being been well-publicised and well-regarded (see the IFS response in The Times<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ifs.org.uk%2Fpublications%2F13308&data=02%7C01%7Chsx056%40coventry.ac.uk%7Cabdd0bf0eb9148c3e6c608d61d7e0549%7C4b18ab9a37654abeac7c0e0d398afd4f%7C0%7C0%7C636728824436506478&sdata=10FvOGqxgBVrLHEVMXy5KDCbhBpfSm9Ja7gK8dSq3Jk%3D&reserved=0>, or the BBC<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fuk-45545625&data=02%7C01%7Chsx056%40coventry.ac.uk%7Cabdd0bf0eb9148c3e6c608d61d7e0549%7C4b18ab9a37654abeac7c0e0d398afd4f%7C0%7C0%7C636728824436506478&sdata=vuhtBExedYaffzPmnWBhgGqDngduSk%2BYGWprkEAnvbM%3D&reserved=0> or the Guardian<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fsociety%2F2018%2Fsep%2F16%2Fnew-study-finds-45-million-uk-children-living-in-poverty%3FCMP%3Dshare_btn_tw&data=02%7C01%7Chsx056%40coventry.ac.uk%7Cabdd0bf0eb9148c3e6c608d61d7e0549%7C4b18ab9a37654abeac7c0e0d398afd4f%7C0%7C0%7C636728824436662719&sdata=GJ6UmzCH%2BNrHsJ0%2Bz61bbCW2GbYwm%2BHS6pOfJy%2F8ehU%3D&reserved=0>, and a more lukewarm Telegraph<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2F2018%2F09%2F17%2Fhalf-million-pensions-poverty-overnight-new-official-calculation%2F&data=02%7C01%7Chsx056%40coventry.ac.uk%7Cabdd0bf0eb9148c3e6c608d61d7e0549%7C4b18ab9a37654abeac7c0e0d398afd4f%7C0%7C0%7C636728824436662719&sdata=Bwoh4XKRpobUti%2FNiwDe3YlKjo3KCiDW9KNu2WC5zEY%3D&reserved=0> piece), but in this post I want to put some scrutiny on a central claim of the new measure: that it better captures poverty among disabled people. Read more of this post<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Finequalitiesblog.wordpress.com%2F2018%2F09%2F18%2Fdoes-the-new-poverty-measure-fully-capture-disability-poverty%2F%23more-4395&data=02%7C01%7Chsx056%40coventry.ac.uk%7Cabdd0bf0eb9148c3e6c608d61d7e0549%7C4b18ab9a37654abeac7c0e0d398afd4f%7C0%7C0%7C636728824436662719&sdata=eHGhlJ4OCXKtsdvmwv%2BbHHpPIOUhmL%2BPs030FQY%2BDdk%3D&reserved=0>
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