Tag: United Nations
The UN, extreme poverty, austerity… and libraries
Last year, I wrote about how public libraries are increasingly providing advice and assistance for claimants of Universal Credit (UC) – the UK Government’s new framework for making social security benefits payments. I pointed out how this was starting to put pressure on some library services. A few days ago, this issue cropped up again, from an unexpected source, in the context of a United Nations-sponsored report […]