Millions of people are struggling financially because of coronavirus.
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States have stepped in after past crises. but they don’t always stick around.
Free movement of people isn’t a huge financial burden on Europe’s welfare states.
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EU migrant households are actually a net benefit on the public purse in much of Europe.
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Long before Chasten Buttigieg became a ‘not-so-secret weapon’ in his husband Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign, another same-sex couple profoundly reshaped American social policy.
It’s unsurprising that a large number of people pay no net tax.
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Its extremely common, everywhere, for large numbers of people to pay no net tax. It tells us nothing about the size of the welfare state or about whether it bribes people to keep tax high.
Self-help leaders can convince us that we have the responsibility to improve our lives. But this can ignore the realities of social inequities. Tony Robbins, motivational speaker, personal finance instructor and self-help author on ‘Wall Street Week’ in 2016.
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Self-help books can help us get through difficult times by telling us we have the agency to take control. But this method can also ignore structural inequities and negatively influence public policy.
The cash machine doesn’t work for everyone.
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Lots of things have happened in a century, but poverty has proven persistently hard to treat.
Headquarters of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington, DC.
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An April 2017 survey explored Americans’ opinions about government intervention and welfare policies. It found that on average, they want more from their government, but are highly polarised.
The HECS system is a hybrid policy approach that ensures Australian universities remain accessible while funding remains sustainable.
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From the 20th-century process of policy trial and error, the nations that married the strengths of markets and government came out ahead.
Anger at austerity brought people onto the streets in 2016.
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New research on the future of the welfare state found people lack confidence in the whole system of government, rather than individual politicians.
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From a certain perspective, we’re already on the road to practicing a ‘progressive eugenics’ not a million miles away from what was imagined historically.
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.
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.
Down the steps of Finland’s famous Bengtskaer lighthouse.
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This problem masks a greater threat to the welfare state than it first appears.
On the march, May 2017.
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Labour’s pro-NHS, anti-cuts message appealed to both Leavers and Remainers.
Oh, the regret.
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One policy above all others will haunt the Tory election campaign to the bitter end.
Should government perform any tasks listed in the Yellow Pages?
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Governments have come to realise that no one sector acting alone has the capacity or capability to solve complex social policy problems.
“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.
Reforms to the benefits system have faced severe delays and left people struggling.
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Fewer than half a million people are currently receiving the new, simplified benefit according to newly released data.