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Lengthy processes and onerous documentation requirements are obstacles to exercising rights.
For some Swedes, the question isn’t simply whether a wealth tax works, but what kind of society has been lost with its abolition.
The country can’t keep tinkering with a dysfunctional tax system and expect things to get better.
Once revered as a great humanitarian, Truby King has recently been characterised as a eugenicist. Seeing him in the context of his times might restore some balance.
Past experience suggests that adding work requirements to Medicaid will strip health services from millions of American without increasing employment.
Many political debates about immigration and the welfare of immigrants are not accompanied by facts. A new data set can help with that.
A style born from post-war optimism and trauma, brutalism’s impact on culture, rebellion, and urban life remains deeply felt.
More households are now living below the benchmark figure for minimum income.
A new report offers valuable advice on how to support people to find the right job – something the UK needs if it wants to achieve economic growth.
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.
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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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Visiting Academic, 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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Professor of Sociology of Youth and Culture, University of Leeds
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Professor of Social Policy, University of York
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Professor of Economics and Senior Researcher, Princeton University
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Professor in Social Policy, University of Glasgow
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Professor of Public Health, Newcastle University