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'Bizarre' child benefit cut 'unfair to families' and could cause parents to split
This is Money
Jill Kirby, a family expert and the author of The Price of Parenthood, said the child benefit change was 'anti-family'. She added: 'The IFS's analysis underlines just how unfair this change will be for one-earner families.

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Daily Mail

Child benefit cuts 'unfair to families': 'Bizarre' plan will penalise parents ...
Daily Mail
Jill Kirby, a family expert and the author of The Price of Parenthood, said the child benefit change was 'anti-family'. She added: 'The IFS's analysis underlines just how unfair this change will be for one-earner families.

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MadeForMums

Working mums resent stay-at-home partners
MadeForMums
But they are not finding it easy,” said Jill Kirby, author of The Price of Parenthood. The average-working woman earns more than a man at the same age, so many couples have no choice for the higher earner to work while the lower earner stays home to ...

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Jill Kirby: Tories need to “own” plans to increase the personal ...
Conservative Home, ConservativeHome's Columnists Page - Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:07:27 GMT
These days it's rare for the Deputy Prime Minister to enjoy a surge in popularity, but his demand last week for income tax cuts seem to have done the trick. Mr Clegg's call for the Chancellor to accelerate the proposed increase ...
Jill Kirby: The Government should now capitalise on its popularity ...
Conservative Home, ConservativeHome's Columnists Page - Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:04:28 GMT
As the House of Lords voted down the benefits cap on Monday night, the TV evening news bulletins presented case studies of households who would stand to lose from a £26000 welfare limit. Whilst the bulletins' editors ...
Jill Kirby: Why on earth does Grant Shapps want to give the state a ...
Conservative Home, ConservativeHome's Columnists Page - Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:45:15 GMT
Why would old people voluntarily put their own houses at the disposal of their local authority? I find it extraordinary that a Conservative Housing Minister is recommending the Free Space housing scheme, being piloted by ...
Jill Kirby: Labour should back mandatory work schemes ...
Conservative Home, ConservativeHome's Columnists Page - Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:52:15 GMT
The Coalition's welfare reform programme made an important breakthrough last week, as the DWP released the startling results from its first pilot scheme for workfare. The 'mandatory work activity' scheme requires claimants ...

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Policy into Action: The Manifestos
Bloglines - Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:56:00 GMT
The Direct Democracy series of pamphlets, Jill Kirby's The Reality Gap and numerous other CPS reports have in recent years laid out an ...
Jill Kirby on Newsnight
Bloglines - Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:24:00 GMT
Jill Kirby debated with Richard Reeves of Demos on Newsnight last night on the contrasting philosophies behind the Labour and Conservative ...