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A trauma-informed approach could be life-changing for a wide range of vulnerable claimants – not just veterans.
Tax evasion crackdowns, efficiency savings and welfare cuts are easy political sells – but getting these measures to deliver large amounts of revenue is much more difficult.
The extreme levels of poverty endured by economically inactive people (as highlighted in the government’s own data) are a direct result of deliberate political choices to continually erode benefits.
In the 1940s, Britain’s nascent welfare state was designed around male financial responsibility for their families – unmarried mothers were intentionally disregarded.
The UK benefits system does not systematically cater for the basic household needs of healthy eating and domestic energy.
The film is run through with an unflinching belief in the power communities wield and the tangible limits they face.
You may feel little sympathy for people in the top bracket of earnings, but don’t let that stop you reading. Like it or not, their views and actions matter to everyone
A review of government services has found that autistic people are being failed in health, education, employment, poverty and housing.
Brenda Matthews’ story is a truth-seeking quest to right the wrongs perpetrated by a government hell-bent on doing ‘as they saw fit’ when it came to Aboriginal peoples, writes Sandra Phillips.
Research shows a progressive basic income is needed now.
Prioritising economic growth without a plan to curb exploitative business practices is not a solution. The UK needs a return to the forward-thinking social reforms of 1945.
Targeted income support could help tackle big social and ecological challenges.
Amid further strain on public funding, we ask: What’s the future of the welfare state in developed and developing nations?
Cuts to public spending do not actually result in efficiency savings because they cause more problems for people than they solve.
Labor MP Daniel Mulino argues that the capacity of the state to undertake income redistribution has reached its limits, but that the need for social insurance continues to grow.
The late 1970s marked a high point for economic equality in the UK. Returning to the progressive policies that made that possible could solve today’s cost of living crisis.
The great ‘peace dividend’ looks to be heading for the buffers.
The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened unemployment and poverty, showing the need for the government to permanently expand income support to working-age adults.
Your view depends on whether you see poverty as the result of individual or policy failings.
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Visiting Fellow, School of Policy Studies, University of Bristol
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Research Professor in Contemporary British History, King's College London
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Senior Lecturer in Economics and Personal Finance, The Open University
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Professor of Social Policy, University of Kent
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Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology, University of Warwick
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Emeritus Professor of Social Inclusion, University of Portsmouth
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University Academic Fellow, Sociology, University of Leeds
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Professor of Social Policy, University of York
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Professor in Economics and Humanistic Studies, Princeton University
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ANZSOG Adjunct Research Fellow, Curtin University
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Professor in Social Policy, University of York
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Lecturer, Federation University Australia
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Assistant Professor in English Education, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Public Health, Newcastle University
