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A new study has highlighted the damaging psychological impact of welfare conditionality on disabled people.
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The best way to help young people into work is to listen to their aspirations, and cater to their needs.
Research among Canadians shows employment to be a critical social determinant of health, partly because those who earn higher wages have more access to safe housing, nutritious foods, social services and medical care.
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No longer can young people invest in their education and work their way into secure employment. The health impacts of this job insecurity are profound.
Tenants on benefits are left with few options.
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Administrative errors and negative stereotypes lead landlords to discriminate against people on housing benefit.
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The universal basic income movement has a major problem: both critics and even many supporters don’t understand how much it would really cost.
Disappearing from a high street near you.
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A long read on the decimation of British jobcentres – and why it puts the rollout of Universal Credit at risk.
Dealing with the disability benefit system can be highly stressful.
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Perpetual uncertainty and changes to the way disability benefits work take a heavy toll on claimants.
Collecting the family allowance in 1946: the Beveridge report influenced the creation of Britain’s welfare state.
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Thousands queued to buy the report by William Beveridge that would lay the foundations for Britain’s modern welfare state.
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What if governments paid everyone a certain amount of money to cover basic needs?
Shoppers browse at a Sears Canada store in Toronto in October after the company began liquidation sales. Its retirement funds are short $308 million, forcing a 19 per cent cut to employee pensions.
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Sears Canada’s bankruptcy should alert employees and regulators alike to rethink defined-benefit pensions.
Struggling to make ends meet.
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It was meant to provide a more streamlined and coherent system – but it isn’t working.
The government has rejected calls for the rollout of the one-stop benefit to be paused.
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The rollout of the new benefit system will not be paused – but it is causing real hardship.
How biased are people against people claiming welfare?
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New research on implicit attitudes to people who receive benefits shows how pervasive hostility towards them is.
Hedonism isn’t all about sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. It can be about savouring the pleasure in a cup of tea at the end of a hard day.
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Savouring the pleasures in life is linked to better health and well-being. And no, that doesn’t necessarily mean binge drinking or all-night wild parties.
Families benefit when fathers and mothers get paid parental leave.
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The nation needs a more comprehensive approach to family leave and relief for parents with child care expenses. But the proposals the Trump team rolled out initially fell short.
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Changes to the benefits system delve into the pockets of the poor and will lead to more families and disabled people needing to use food banks.
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From April, single parents will have to look for work when their youngest child turns three.
Former benefits recipient Lorraine Worrall now runs a market stall.
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A TV series that gives families on benefits a lump sum of £26,000 shows how starting your own business can transform your life.
“I just don’t get what the big deal is.”
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Changes to the national insurance tax for self-employed people was one of the most controversial parts of the 2017 spring budget.
Daniel Blake.
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Meet the real Daniel Blakes.