{"id":1880,"date":"2013-06-28T12:58:21","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T10:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroalter.local\/news\/the-toxic-trinity-of-precarity\/"},"modified":"2020-03-03T12:20:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T11:20:33","slug":"the-toxic-trinity-of-precarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroalter.com\/it\/the-toxic-trinity-of-precarity\/","title":{"rendered":"THE TOXIC TRINITY OF PRECARITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As part of our project on <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/makingaliving\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">making a living<\/a>, we&#8217;re looking at how helpful different forms of support are to help young people cope with precarity.<strong>Recession, social stigma and emotional distress \u2013 mixing up a toxic trinity<\/strong> We make the assumption that focusing on getting people into work helps take people out of poverty \u2013 whether it\u2019s using the incentive of the minimum wage or the threat of cutting welfare payments.<\/p>\n<p>But when we look at what\u2019s going on the ground, many people find it difficult to find the money or the time to look for jobs. Even when they have found work, many families still face poverty, having to get high cost sub-prime loans because they are refused better value loans.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s get this straight \u2013 the more disadvantaged people are, the harder they\u2019re going to be it by the recession. That&#8217;s why the advice and support by organisations such as @jrf_uk is so critical:\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zs09IEog060\" height=\"315\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div>Many people aspire to be \u201cgood families\u201d, but face the constant threat of companies charging them ever more for their basic needs, with benefits agencies telling them to cut corners when they are no more corners to cut and society labelling them \u201cbad parents\u201d.This all creates a social crisis of of deteriorating mental health and self exclusion. Income inequality doesn\u2019t only affect spending power, it exacerbates everything else \u2013 indeed there is a direct correlation between the rates of emotional distress and income inequality.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We may be able to reboot the banks at the touch of a Treasury button, but rebooting people\u2019s livelihoods requires a far more <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/19AsbvF\">radical approach<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><a style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/138P4QK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 232px; height: 41px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/euroalter.com\/images\/article_uploads\/Imagine%20Day%20in%20the%20Life.jpg\" \/><\/a><br style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\" \/> <a style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/12rknuz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 232px; height: 41px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/euroalter.com\/images\/article_uploads\/Share%20your%20Story.jpg\" \/><\/a><br style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\" \/> <a style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\" href=\"http:\/\/slidesha.re\/UGuzG7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 232px; height: 42px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/euroalter.com\/images\/article_uploads\/Use%20Creative%20Methods.jpg\" \/><\/a><br style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\" \/> <a style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/11nXQrc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 232px; height: 42px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/euroalter.com\/images\/article_uploads\/Observe.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our project on making a living, we&#8217;re looking at how helpful different forms of support are to help young people cope with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-citizens-rights"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - 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