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Babes In Toyland @ Bastille Days Mpls, MN July 17 2016

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Billy Briggs - Chew Tobacco Rag

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Rhona Cunningham talks about the poverty trap. She says people are struggling on zero hours contracts. They are paid the minimum wage. They struggle to pay high rents for homes in the private sector. The cost of food and travel rises but pay doesn’t. Childcare is expensive. “Every single thing has kind of slowly chipped away at the bricks. They’ve already drained their resources as much as they can. Basically they don’t have anywhere else to go. She says the introduction of policies such as Universal Credit, sanctions and the bedroom tax have caused severe financial problems for families, making them reliant on charities for essentials. “They’ve already drained their resources as much as they can. Basically they don’t have anywhere else to go.”

Billy Briggs, ''There Is No Safety Net': How Austerity Has Hit One Of Scotland's Poorest Communities', Huffington Post

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Another effect of austerity, Rhona Cunningham adds, is that the benefit system has become “increasingly punitive”. Universal Credit, which replaced six benefits with a single monthly payment, was rolled out to Fife in 2017, a fundamental change that affected the way Fife Gingerbread supported pregnant teenagers through its teen parent project. Staff went from helping young mothers be good parents to counselling teenagers left without money from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) for five weeks. “The workers were frustrated because they couldn’t tell the parents it would be all right, because they didn’t know it was going to be all right,” Rhona says. “They didn’t know if six weeks were going to turn into seven weeks, eight weeks, nine weeks, 10 weeks. “They didn’t know how long they were going to be caught in this hellhole basically. It’s what it was. So we had teens at home with new babies and no money.”

Billy Briggs, ''There Is No Safety Net': How Austerity Has Hit One Of Scotland's Poorest Communities', Huffington Post

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There has been scathing criticism of the UK government’s austerity policy. In May the United Nations’ special rapporteur on extreme poverty, Professor Phillip Alston, said “ideological” cuts to public services since 2010 have led to “tragic consequences”. His report said that close to 40 per cent of children are likely to live in poverty by 2021, adding the DWP had been tasked with “designing a digital and sanitised version of the 19th century workhouse, made infamous by Charles Dickens”. By contrast, Alston praised the Scottish government. During a visit to Edinburgh in September, he said Scotland is on “a very different trajectory” from the rest of the UK regarding social security. He said the spirit of the welfare state was “alive and humming” north of the border. In 2017, the Scottish government’s Child Poverty Bill introduced income-based child poverty targets – making Scotland the only nation in the UK to have these enshrined in law. As part of a drive to reduce child poverty, the Scottish government announced this year it will introduce a new Scottish Child Payment, a plan to give money to low-income families, starting in early 2021.

Billy Briggs, ''There Is No Safety Net': How Austerity Has Hit One Of Scotland's Poorest Communities', Huffington Post

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Billy Briggs & his XIT Boys; From the left side BB, Pat Trotter, Jess Williams & Weldon Allard.

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Tennesse Ernie Ford, Billy Briggs and Hank Thompson, Amarillo, TX early 1950′s