There are some “glimmers of light for pensioners and those actively seeking work”, but “there’s still not enough social justice”. That’s the comment of English Caritas, “disappointed” by the government’s latest social welfare budget. “Last year declares the director of the Caritas ‘social action’ department, Sarah Lindsell the Chancellor allocated extra funds to workers with families. This year he turned his attention to the unemployed”, but “the measures he announced” in actual fact “penalize those without work for over thirteen weeks”. The greater “guarantees” promised by the government are not enough, in other words, to offset the “flexibility” of the labour market, even though “there are glimmers of light in the budget for our more disadvantaged fellowmen”, for example the proposal to create “commercial areas” in the 2000 places of the UK with the highest rate of poverty. New director for missions
