welfare reform Archives - Social Policy Association

Research shows that the British middle and upper classes have taken more in welfare in recent years than have the working class.

No 27: Social security reforms have channelled welfare towards the rich: what research and policy agenda does this set?

April 23, 2018 S-P-A-Administrator 0

by Daniel Edmiston Seventy years ago, the National Assistance Act was passed as the final piece of the legislative jigsaw that saw the establishment of […]

Microfinance is an example of a social innovation that has benefitted many people around the world.

No 9: Brave new world or second dark age? Social policy and social innovation

December 13, 2017 S-P-A-Administrator 0

by Stephen Sinclair It has been estimated that almost half of the jobs in the US could be made redundant by automation and new technologies in […]

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.

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

November 15, 2017 S-P-A-Administrator 0

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 […]