{"id":4890,"date":"2019-08-07T10:06:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T09:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=4890"},"modified":"2019-08-07T10:06:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T09:06:24","slug":"is-the-two-child-benefit-cap-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2019\/08\/07\/is-the-two-child-benefit-cap-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the two-child benefit cap fair?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Peter Taylor-Gooby appeared on BBC Radio Kent\u2019s The Wake Up Call programme this week to discuss the two-child cap on benefit with MEP Ann Widdecombe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/social-policy-sociology-social-research\/people\/1456\/taylor-gooby-peter\">Professor Taylor-Gooby<\/a> argues that the cap condemns some 600,000 children to be brought up below the poverty line and that this is not good for anyone. <a href=\"https:\/\/cpag.org.uk\/child-poverty\/child-poverty-facts-and-figures\">Facts and figures<\/a> published by the the Child Poverty Action Group show the shocking reality of child poverty in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the discussion on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/p07hnk90\">BBC Sounds (5 August 2019: From 1:44:29)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Peter Taylor-Gooby appeared on BBC Radio Kent\u2019s The Wake Up Call programme this week to discuss the two-child cap on benefit with MEP Ann &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2019\/08\/07\/is-the-two-child-benefit-cap-fair\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[43783,139988],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4891,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4890\/revisions\/4891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}