{"id":43003,"date":"2014-03-11T03:21:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T03:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/george_osborne_under_attack_from_bishops_again_for_discriminating_against_o\/"},"modified":"2014-03-11T03:21:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T03:21:00","slug":"george_osborne_under_attack_from_bishops_again_for_discriminating_against_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43003","title":{"rendered":"George Osborne under attack from bishops again for discriminating against &#39;one-earner families&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Church of England bishop has accused the Government of penalising stay-at-home mothers and carers by discriminating against families in the tax and benefits system.<\/p>\n<p>The criticism came after an inquiry by a Christian charity to be launched on Tuesday found that that married couples with only one earner keep less of every extra pound they earn in the UK than in any other country in the developed world.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, church leaders including 27 Anglican bishops condemned the Coalition\u2019s welfare policies for causing hardship and hunger, and Cardinal Vincent Nichols, leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, said its benefit cuts were \u201ca disgrace&#8221;. Now the Government is under attack for being \u201canti-family\u201d\u009d in a study carried out by the charity Christian Action Research and Education (CARE).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/george-osborne-under-attack-from-bishops-again-as-he-is-accused-of-discriminating-against-oneearner-families-with-tax-policies-9182618.html\">Read it all<\/a> from the Independent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Church of England bishop has accused the Government of penalising stay-at-home mothers and carers by discriminating against families in the tax and benefits system. The criticism came after an inquiry by a Christian charity to be launched on Tuesday<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43003\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,40,50,74,101,389,635,149,199,597,114,98,151,587],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-children","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-politics-in-general","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}