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Inequality persists in the UK in large part due to a moral economy that valorises competition and meritocracy and denigrates lack of financial success.
50th Anniversary Blog Series

No 50: Why do high rates of poverty and economic inequality persist in the UK?

July 5, 2019 S-P-A-Administrator 0

by Karen Rowlingson The UK is one of the wealthiest countries in the world and yet levels of poverty and economic inequality are extremely high. In 2016, the top 1 per cent in the UK […]

Delivery drivers are amongst those harmed by Universal Credit's failure to adequately support the self-employed.
50th Anniversary Blog Series

No 40: How the social protection system can fail the self-employed

December 10, 2018 S-P-A-Administrator 0

by Kevin Caraher and Enrico Reuter Rachel Mantell, a self-employed management consult, earns more than £100,000 per year, can afford to spend £6,000 on holidays, and is sharing her good fortune by hosting refugees in […]

Scotland's Social Security bill holds important lessons for Westminster.
50th Anniversary Blog Series

No 38: What we can learn from Scotland’s approach to social security

October 15, 2018 S-P-A-Administrator 0

by Ruth Patrick Too often, we are told that welfare traps people in dependency, discouraging individuals from making the right choices, and enabling a culture of irresponsibility and inactivity. This lazy, stigmatising narrative has been […]

Disability living allowance and personal independence payment do not foster independence, but rather dependence.
50th Anniversary Blog Series

No 30: Disabled people’s independence: the underfunding and commodification of support

May 14, 2018 S-P-A-Administrator 0

by Kirstein Rummery Social policy has always distinguished between the ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ in responses to need. When the post-war welfare settlement was decided, the battle lines against Beveridge’s 5 Evils of want, ignorance, squalor, […]

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50th Anniversary Blog Series

No 24: Social insecurity: a new consensus is needed to return security to the system

April 3, 2018 S-P-A-Administrator 1

by Sarah Batty ‘Putting the security back into Social Security’ was the title of a series of national solution-focused workshops held in 2017 in which I was involved, organised by Dr Michael Orton of Warwick […]

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