No 39: Austerity adversely targets children in need
By Harriet Churchill In October Prime Minister Teresa May spoke again about her desire to tackle burning injustices and her belief in the good government […]
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No 25: The hidden injuries of conditional cash transfer programs
by Gerardo Arriaga 2018 marks the 21st anniversary of the first-of-its-kind Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program worldwide — a program that aims to alleviate poverty […]
No 21: 50 years of poverty studies: how our ideas of poverty have changed
by Paul Spicker There are times when social scientists simply get hold of the wrong end of things. When Charles Booth did his research on […]
No 8: Universal Credit: A benefits system to increase debt
by Steve Iafrati Narratives explaining poverty as caused by personal failings and poor decisions are nothing new. The characterisation of the likeable but foolish Mr […]
No 5: Where do we go from here? Fifty years on from the ‘War on Poverty’
by Stephen Crossley In 1967, Martin Luther King began work on a book titled ‘Where Do We Go from Here?’, in which he argued that […]
No 4: As if: After Manchester, London Bridge, Grenfell Tower
by Fiona Williams For weeks I’ve been grabbed by the throat: deep sobs that hijack the roll out of sleep, gasping for air as […]
No 3: Why the two-child policy is the worst social security policy ever
by Jonathan Bradshaw What is the worst social security policy ever? There are many competitors for this accolade in our history — less eligibility in […]