25/04/13 – Bernadette Ségol, the Secretary General of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), speaking at the General Assembly of the Social Platform, made an appeal for a common approach at EU level on Minimum Income based on shared principles.
Monthly Archives: May 2013
Update on Minimum Income Standards (MIS) from Joseph Rowntree Foundation, sent by Donald Hirsh, Director of Centre for Research on Social Policy (CRSP)
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has renewed funding for updating MIS, up to the end of 2016, with regular research to ensure that the budgets reflect contemporary values and living standards. We will now be carrying out “rebase” studies, recalculating household budgets from scratch, every four years for each household type, on a biannual rolling basis. So, in 2014, Continue reading