In recent years a range of new expressions have been added to our language which, although developed with good intentions to highlight specific and particularly distressing aspects of poverty
The word juggernaut comes from the huge vehicles used by Indian temples to transport statues of their gods. They were so difficult to control that they often crushed people in their path.
Imagine if, when Iain Duncan Smith began his welfare reforms, we had allocated an area of the UK where the reforms were not implemented, as a sort of control group for comparison.
The independent Joseph Rowntree Foundation says reform of the benefit system is necessary and Universal Credit remains the right thing to do. But it warns in a new briefing that a number of crucial changes are needed to ensure the reform tackles poverty and boosts living standards for low income families.