EAPN

EAPN- England works to increase the participation of people in poverty and their organisations in European and UK policy to combat poverty and social exclusion.

[Unite Community Chesterfield @ChesterfieldUC]

Food's Out For Summer!

Today is @Unite_Community's Day of Action to Stop Universal Credit which is the main cause of holiday hunger poverty that more & more children in the UK are having to face. To help us highlight this issue please RT

#HolidayHunger
#StopUniversalCredit

[EAPN @EAPN_England]

Great to have @DerbyChrisW supporting @EMINnetwork and @EAPNEurope

[EAPN @EAPN_England]

Please sign and retweet our petition to "Double it!"

Working age benefits are below 30% of median household income after housing costs. The #Poverty line is 60%. So who can live decently on 30%? Double the benefits. #Benefits go up, so #wages go up.
https://t.co/hUWI7KqjI0

[Rory Palmer @Rory_Palmer]

Pleased that the @EMINnetwork @EAPNEurope bus is visiting the East Midlands today. We have to secure progressive policy change to tackle immediate impacts of poverty and long term causes. My video message below ▶️ https://t.co/njg6WbcsrJ

[The Poverty Alliance @PovertyAlliance]

Still places available for this event in Leicester, with details on how to register below 👇We'll be there! https://t.co/y8rPhBOJCj

[EAPN @EAPN_England]

...day self-employed etc and we all need to find effective ways of working with and for people transitioning through these statuses, so nobody falls down the rabbit holes.

[EAPN @EAPN_England]

Kerri, who is a single mother of 4 and very active campaigning on poverty also volunteering with Fife Gingerbread, giving it large to the 99 people in the audience at the future of work event at the European Commission’s big annual conference on Inclusive Growth.

[EAPN @EAPN_England]

We also argued for trades unions and anti-poverty networks and organisations to put effort into working better together to achieve our common aims. People in the insecure labour market are one day an employee, another day unemployed, another day a ‘worker’, another...

[EAPN @EAPN_England]

MEP @Rory_Palmer sends @EMINnetwork a message of support.

In Europe, we’re now a a critical turning point: we’re seeing growing levels of poverty and inequality and at the same time we see the rich getting richer.

https://t.co/eudhmotTvA

[EAPN @EAPN_England]

We went to the TUC rally new deal for working people in London on 12 May with Unite the Union members supporting the demands for better wages and conditions, rights to trade union organising and an end to zero hours contracts and better benefits, which fits our EMIN social floor.

[EAPN @EAPN_England]

European Minimum Income Network ‘indoor’ event about adequate income, at St Martin’s House in #Liecester on 23rd May from 9:30am til 12pm (midday).

All welcome!

https://t.co/nl5p2tr4Y0

[EAPN @EAPN_England]

The European Anti-Poverty campaign is coming to #Leicester:

23rd May 2018, 10am - 3:30pm

Humberstone Gate, Leicester, LE1 1WB

Guaranteed minimum income – nobody deserves less; everybody benefits.

[EAPN @EAPN_England]

The Busblog for the EMIN campaign journey across Europe https://t.co/1l4OaCqYRI is now online!

So please:

1) Follow the blog.
2) Share it on Social media.
3) Invite all your contacts, who might be interested, to follow the blog.

[EAPN @EAPN_England]

European Minimum Income Bus Tour arrives UK on 22/23 May 2018. Range of events in the pipeline. Watch this space!

[EAPN @EAPN_England]

European Minimum Income Network campaign gathering momentum. Get involved! https://t.co/uMnKOphYZU