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Nov 6, 2024 | 
fare.org.au | Matthew Johnson
I work mainly in the area of knowledge translation around Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). The reality is that where there are people living with unrecognised and unsupported FASD, there is often violence too, regardless of your identity, culture or skin colour. For Aboriginal Australians, we cannot talk about violence or alcohol without discussing the backdrop in which it sits – colonisation – and its ongoing and insidious impacts.
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May 16, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Elliott Johnson |Daniel Nettle |Matthew Johnson
Former prime minister Gordon Brown has called for a rescue plan for some of the UK’s most vulnerable young people. There are, he said, 3.4 million children born after 2010 who are in poverty and whose development has been affected by the austerity policies of Conservative-led governments.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Matthew Johnson |Matthew Flinders
To say that the Labour party is flying high in the polls is something of an understatement. But despite its consistent lead against the Tories, the opposition finds itself in a rather odd position: on the cusp of power but without a clear transformative vision of what it will actually do in office. The risk is that Labour will win but also lose the next general election.
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Nov 27, 2023 | 
nelsonbostock.com | Matthew Johnson
It’s probably fairly safe to assume that everyone’s heard of the so-called Wagatha Christie case by now. Unless, of course, you’ve been living under a rock. Or you have a far healthier relationship to reality TV than I do. The 2019 drama, which began when Colleen Rooney outed her fellow-WAG Rebekah Vardy for selling her private Instagram stories to The Sun newspaper, quickly became a trending topic and somewhat of a cultural phenomenon.
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Sep 17, 2023 | 
paperity.org | Carolyn Cates |Erin Roby |Caitlin Canfield |Matthew Johnson
PLOS ONE, Jul 2023 Considerable evidence demonstrates the importance of the cognitive home environment in supporting children’s language, cognition, and school readiness more broadly. This is particularly important for children from low-income backgrounds, as cognitive stimulation is a key area of resilience that mediates the impact of poverty on child development.
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Jun 26, 2023 | 
labourlist.org | Matthew Johnson
Interest in a universal basic income has dramatically risen in response to plans for two micro-pilots in Jarrow, South Tyneside, and East Finchley, London, published in a report by the think tank Autonomy and Northumbria University. We have been asked two recurring questions. First, why is a progressive basic income needed now? And, second, why should the Labour Party recommit to trialling it given their current strategy of avoiding perceptions of radical policy?
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Jun 16, 2023 | 
greatergood.berkeley.edu | Matthew Johnson |Elliott Johnson
In October 1936, 200 men marched from South Tyneside to London to protest against the poverty and unemployment in their town, Jarrow. Nearly a century later, Jarrow is taking part in a small pilot scheme to test how universal basic income (UBI) could tackle financial insecurity and health inequalities—which continue to plague the town. Under the scheme, two groups—15 people in Jarrow and another 15 in East Finchley, London—will receive £1,600 a month for two years.
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Jun 12, 2023 | 
bigissue.com | Matthew Johnson |Elliot Johnson
Financial insecurity has risen to levels unseen in generations. Evidence from the Child Poverty Action Group shows millions of Britons face fuel poverty, while the campaign group End Fuel Poverty Coalition found that 1,047 people died in England from living in cold, damp homes in December 2022.
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Jun 12, 2023 | 
theconversation.com | Matthew Johnson |Elliott Johnson
In October 1936, 200 men marched from South Tyneside to London to protest against the poverty and unemployment in their town, Jarrow. Nearly a century later, Jarrow is taking part in a small pilot scheme to test how universal basic income (UBI) could tackle financial insecurity and health inequalities – which continue to plague the town. Under the scheme, two groups – 15 people in Jarrow and another 15 in East Finchley, London, will receive £1,600 a month for two years.
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Mar 20, 2023 | 
tandfonline.com | Elliott Johnson |Howard Reed |Matthew Johnson
Consultation and areas of consensus and disagreementThe core principle that emerges from all voices on disability within UBI is that disabled people must not lose out from a move to a new system. With regard to non-means-tested disability benefits, this principle, as well as fiscal reality, indicates that it would not be desirable to raise UBI to an amount that would cover costs of disability among the entire (including non-disabled) population.
