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Child poverty has increased under austerity while support services and welfare have been cut.
50th Anniversary Blog Series

No 39: Austerity adversely targets children in need

December 3, 2018 S-P-A-Administrator 0

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 can do. She pledged austerity is over. Yet despite evidence […]

Conditional Cash Transfer or CCT programmes can do more harm than good.
50th Anniversary Blog Series

No 25: The hidden injuries of conditional cash transfer programs

April 9, 2018 S-P-A-Administrator 0

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 through human capital formation among people in extreme poverty. It […]

How social scientists define and study poverty has changed greatly over the last 50 years.
50th Anniversary Blog Series

No 21: 50 years of poverty studies: how our ideas of poverty have changed

March 12, 2018 S-P-A-Administrator 2

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 poverty, he was mainly interested in describing the things that […]

50th Anniversary Blog Series

No 8: Universal Credit: A benefits system to increase debt

December 6, 2017 S-P-A-Administrator Comments Off 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 Micawber in Dickens’ David Copperfield has given way to a […]

Dr Martin Luther King, Jr and other civil rights leaders met with President Lyndon Johnson, who launched the war on poverty, at the White House in 1964.
50th Anniversary Blog Series

No 5: Where do we go from here? Fifty years on from the ‘War on Poverty’

November 15, 2017 S-P-A-Administrator Comments Off on 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 the choice was between ‘chaos or community’. The book, published […]

Fiona Willaims pays tribute to victims of terrorism and the Grenfell Tower fire with her poem As If.
50th Anniversary Blog Series

No 4: As if: After Manchester, London Bridge, Grenfell Tower

November 8, 2017 S-P-A-Administrator 0

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 if those dying were mine as if the mums and […]

50th Anniversary Blog Series

No 3: Why the two-child policy is the worst social security policy ever

November 1, 2017 S-P-A-Administrator 3

by Jonathan Bradshaw What is the worst social security policy ever? There are many competitors for this accolade in our history — less eligibility in 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the 1934 Unemployment Assistance Board […]

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