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A new study on inequality analyzes the impact of fiscal policy, dramatically altering the standard view of rich and poor in America. It may also change how voters and candidates think about the issue.
On welfare reform, it’s a question of listen and learn.
Women are more likely to claim in-work benefits so they’re more likely to have their movement restricted by the UK’s EU renegotiation.
David Cameron hopes to please eurosceptics by applying a mechanism to suspend welfare payments to EU migrants. Here’s how it works.
The British PM thinks he has a deal to avert a Brexit? The rest of the union has far more pressing problems to think about.
Getting jobseekers off benefits and into well-paid jobs should be a priority. So why has pace been glacial?
A case before the Supreme Court could deal a major blow to unions, highlighting the need for leaders of business and labor to negotiate a new New Deal.
The welfare state increases the number of children born at risk of developing personality profiles that make them less likely to get a job.
Britain is more worried about being a food trader than building a system that properly feeds its people.
The Conservative government want to make £4.4 billion in savings by cutting tax credits. But what exactly are they?
The policies and rhetoric around the drive to cut the welfare bill show the persistence of a 19th century approach to relieving poverty.
The government faces pressure to means test benefits to stop richer elderly people claiming at the expense of their poorer peers.
Real case studies offer important insights into the varied impact of policy and practice on people’s day to day lives. They shouldn’t be made up.
New proposals put drug and alcohol councillors in an ethical bind.
A woman left out of her mother’s will has won £164,000 in the courts but that doesn’t mean you need to rewrite yours.
MPs will vote Monday on a welfare bill which imagines a world where work is a gilded path away from poverty.
By limiting financial support to smaller families, the government is doing its best to stop undesirables from reproducing.
In his budget, George Osborne said that we are all in this together. A look at the evidence shows that we’re not.
After months of speculation, we now know how the Chancellor plans to save £12bn from the welfare budget.
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Professor in Social Policy, University of York
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Professor of Social Policy, Loughborough University
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Professor of Social Policy, University of Salford
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Professor of Social Policy, University of Glasgow
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Professor of Social Policy, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy, University of Kent
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Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, Lancaster University
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Professor of Social Policy, University of York
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Professor of Social Policy, University of York
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Geography, Durham University
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Professor of Public Health, Newcastle University
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Lecturer, Department of Sociology, National University of Ireland Maynooth
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Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Sociology in the School of Social Policy, Sociology, and Social Research, University of Kent
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Professor of Social Policy, University of Kent
