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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’.
The demand for donkey hides to produce ejiao has led to a shortage of donkeys in China and increasingly worldwide.
Amid further strain on public funding, we ask: What’s the future of the welfare state in developed and developing nations?
Public spending cuts and the soaring cost of living will not only affect people lives now, but could trickle down through generations.
COVID-19 infection and death rates in former Eastern Bloc countries suggest the fall of communism was detrimental to the health and well-being of eastern Europeans.
It was vintage Morrison, as he gave evidence on a scandal that involved appalling treatment of people wrongfully pursued in the name of the “integrity” of the welfare system
As a woman living on the disability support pension put it: ‘You don’t have the flexibility that a rich person has to respond to crisis, so you have to beg for help. And you know you’ll be judged’.
A key issue for African countries is: how to contribute towards averting a climate disaster without compromising economic growth and development.
Canada’s current income assistance programs are not doing enough to support Canadians. If the goal of temporary assistance is to help those in need, these programs must have better, broader coverage.
Why tax cuts are unlikely to help Britain address its current crises.
A new report on the ongoing impact of the pandemic on social service providers in Victoria found jobs and labour force participation are far from fully recovered.
Opinion and evidence differ on minimum wage policies, but one thing seems clear – they need to be better integrated within a wider economic support strategy.
Social security reforms are needed that include support for the long-term and chronically unemployed and informal workers.
The pandemic has not proved a ‘turning point in history’ - attitudes towards austerity and welfare had changed significantly before the crisis.
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Peter Whiteford is a Friend of The Conversation.Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Research Associate, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Professor, College of Business, Government & Law, Flinders University
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Associate Professor, Centre for Social Research and Methods, Director, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer in Economics and Personal Finance, The Open University
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Senior Lecturer in Economy and Society, Department of Sociology, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor in International Macroeconomics, Cambridge Judge Business School
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Professor of Social Policy, University of York
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Associate professor, Australian National University
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Professor of Economics, Queen's University Belfast
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Professor of Social Policy, Loughborough University
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Associate Professor, College of Business, Government and Law, Flinders University
