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Busting the mythbuster myth

There is rarely a day that goes by when the following cry isn't heard: 'Voters are woefully misinformed on this issue, we need to educate them and dispel these myths!' If you assumed I was referring to social security, immigration,...

Dilnot diluted

Jeremy Hunt’s recent announcement about social care funding has been met with a mixture of cautious relief that something is being done to tackle the crisis, and disappointment that Dilnot’s more generous proposals are not being fully implemented.

Social care funding...

Do we want to reform welfare?

The problem we have when talking about welfare reform is that for many years Labour has failed to have a debate with itself about what we believe the welfare state is for and therefore what welfare reform is intended to...

What do we want from social security?

Before examining spending choices around social security, we need to decide what we want from the social security system. At Child Poverty Action Group, it’s obvious that we want a system that prevents poverty amongst families with children. In order...

Rejecting welfare state pessimism

Many on the left would say that the greatest threat facing Britain’s welfare state is the present government’s reckless upheavals and swingeing spending cuts. Not Patrick Diamond and Guy Lodge, the authors of Policy Network’s new report European welfare states after...

Just deserts

Since the downturn, Britain’s welfare system has come under sustained pressure, not just from shrinking budgets but also a backlash in public opinion. 62 per cent of us now agree that benefits are too high and discourage work – up...

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