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Individual cases that seem on the outside to be morally problematic are difficult to assess, and shouldn’t also be held up as the norm.
New report shows millions in the UK are denied essential financial services because of disability, disease and age.
On welfare reform, it’s a question of listen and learn.
Providing citizens with a basic income has shown signs of success in lifting people out of poverty, but more importantly the idea is transforming the way we think about inequality.
The welfare state increases the number of children born at risk of developing personality profiles that make them less likely to get a job.
Victorian schools were alien territory for children, and after World War II many schools were crumbling and unsafe.
The Conservatives are planning to cut £12bn from the welfare budget. It could be a bad political move.
Welfare policy was a political hot potato in the referendum campaign, and it’s a big weapon for the SNP in 2015 too.
George Osborne’s recent announcement that households would receive personalised “annual tax statements” allowing them to track how their taxes are spent has been heavily criticised as manipulative and…
The largest study of poverty ever conducted in the UK has laid out the dire state of British deprivation – and seriously undercut the government’s claim to be lifting people out of poverty through work…
Australia is hosting the G20 this year and showcasing to the world its approach to welfare policy: deny young people income support for up to six months and instead make more food vouchers available. This…
The 2014-15 federal budget continues the deconstruction of Australia’s post-war welfare state. In fact, the budget takes it a step further, particularly for the young. People under the age of 30 will now…
As a tough federal budget round looms, there has been suggestions that the pension eligibility age could rise to 70, indexation of pensions could be changed, Family Tax Benefit Part B could be more tightly…
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