Evan Keir
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Evan Keir
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Work for a Scottish Labour MP / / Interest in Contemporary African & Eastern European History / / books, food and football // Views my own, Twitter escapee, I might get around to posting on here at some point :) views own
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The proportion of families with children in poverty who are in work has increased over recent decades.

Since 2000, the fraction of families in poverty where the adults are doing no paid work has fallen from 51 per cent to 30 per cent.

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January 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Reposted by Evan Keir
A common media/political narrative of asylum is of inexorable ever-increasing flows, driven by policies in receiving countries like the UK.

The shifts over time surely show that push factors (esp war/conflict) matter most. And that flows both rise & fall

(Commons Library)
December 9, 2024 at 4:10 PM