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How to dismantle the welfare state

If the commitment to the welfare state, as we currently understand it, is destroyed then ...

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Just build some bloody council houses!

A government that combines drastic benefit cuts and reducing public housing stock with a massive ...

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After a century of tackling poverty one thing’s for sure: government must play a key role

New Labour’s strategy to eradicate poverty was undoubtedly flawed. But the coalition government’s belief that ...

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Time to think differently about work?

Rather than simply focus on driving up productivity and encouraging everyone to work longer hours ...

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Living Labs: connecting the challenges of global cities with innovators around the world

In our Living Labs Global Award programme, we are working with 21 global cities to ...

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A view on the Work Programme

My favourite in the Work Programme is the contradiction with the personalisation and choice agenda. ...

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This is welfare abolition, not welfare reform

When Cameron says he wants to cut the benefits bill by £18bn he’s pointing directly ...

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Trading Places Challenge

The serious message: how difficult is it to live on JSA and how impossible is ...

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The crisis in housing

Brendan Nevin argues there’s a mismatch between the coalition government’s approach to housing and the ...

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Is poverty out of control?

Julia Unwin argues poverty in the UK should not be accepted as a fact of ...