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The next government should restore the value of benefits to cover the costs of living.
Amid rising unemployment, inflation and poverty in the 1830s, Philadelphia taxpayers believed welfare scammers were bleeding coffers dry. Poor lists from 1829 show they were wrong.
Eliminating poverty has not been a major campaign issue during the 2024 presidential campaign.
Disabled people need £975 more per month to maintain the same standard of living as a non-disabled person.
Many people who rent or have a mortgage rely on the accommodation supplement to afford their homes. So how could the government make the scheme fairer and more effective than it is now?
Homeless families rehoused in temporary are bearing the brunt of the high travel costs and policies ill-designed to accommodate their specific needs.
Governmental support is failing the country’s most vulnerable households. Politicians need to act now.
People on benefits are borrowing from the government to pay for essentials like power bills and car repairs. But repayments leave them with even less than before.
Low-income mothers with infants are struggling with food insecurity, which can lead to long-term health impacts for both mothers and children.
Welfare advocates in this country can now forcefully critique any government program that trades on stigma or vulnerability and ignores real-life suffering.
Beware those who offer ‘cultural’ fixes and non-binding reassurances. The government shouldn’t fall back on the very institutions that never fully acted until a royal commission.
It’s not always the case that poorer citizens want more public spending and richer people want less.
People who have experienced domestic violence can have trouble finding and keeping jobs because of physical injuries and their abusers’ efforts to sabotage their employment.
Non-profits provide critical services and social support for communities. They also provide settings where vital forms of social capital are produced.
The idea that people are cheating the benefits system has a long history in British society.
My new report for the royal commission examines why the practice of income averaging is so problematic.
High rural poverty rates are driven largely by fuel and transport costs.
Robodebt should never again be framed as a technological glitch or a legal oversight. It was the active and direct exploitation of people’s vulnerability.
ParentsNext requires the parents of very young children to perform monitored activities in return for Centrelink payments. Eve Vincent talks to single mothers about ‘the indignity of investigation’.
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