Whose welfare state is it anyway?
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012 by Kenny McBride Posted in Benefits, Citizen's income, Corporate Social Responsibility, Fairness, Inequality, Livelihoods | 1 Comment »As the American presidential primary season gets underway, Ron Paul has received a great deal of attention for his libertarian approach to economics. In short, libertarian capitalism argues that any form of state intervention in economic matters distorts market forces and ...
Ignoring Britain’s poor is not only morally bad, it’s economically unsound
Thursday, January 19th, 2012 by Ben Morgan Posted in Citizen's income, Inequality, Labour rights, Livelihoods, Robin Hood Tax, Unemployment, Welfare reform | No Comments »This post first appeared on Open Democracy. Chill winds are sweeping Britain’s economy with a general expectation that poverty will increase in the coming years, and that poverty reduction targets will be missed. Alarm bells rang loudly after hints that the ...
One vote today could prevent debt agony for millions
Monday, December 12th, 2011 by Ben Morgan Posted in Benefits, Child poverty, Citizen's income, Debt, Livelihoods, Single parents, Welfare reform | 1 Comment »Today marks a pivotal moment for the UK's 60-year-old welfare system. The Welfare Reform Bill starts ‘Report Stage’ in the house of Lords today - a five-day debate, where the House decides whether to change the legislation by voting on amendments ...
Raising benefits in line with prices is the very least we can do
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011 by Moussa Haddad Posted in Benefits, Citizen's income, Cuts, Fairness, Fuel poverty, Livelihoods, Unemployment | No Comments »Last week, rumours abounded that the Treasury was considering increasing benefits by less than the rate of inflation. The inflation figure for September tends to be used each year as the reference point for raising benefit and pension levels in ...
Whose Economy? Starting the conversation towards a fairer Scotland
Monday, November 7th, 2011 by Mike Danson Posted in Cuts, Inequality, Livelihoods, Unemployment, Welfare reform, Whose Economy | No Comments »Several key messages were generated by the discussions in the Whose Economy? seminar series – which resulted in a series of papers now available here – and not the least of these was the importance of forensic social science in ...
The Sustainable Livelihoods Approach: a bottom-up approach to overcoming poverty
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011 by Moussa Haddad Posted in Attitudes, Benefits, Livelihoods | No Comments »This post first appeared on the ippr website. We’re used to hearing – depressingly often these days – about people living in poverty as being variously feckless, undeserving, or suffering from dependency: in short, as passive, unthinking victims. What if, instead, ...
