The practical response to our society’s widening inequality? A partial basic income
Following Natalie Bennett’s argument for a universal basic income, Karen Buck MP and Declan Gaffney argue there is an easier, more practical option.
Declan Gaffney
Labour’s ‘benefit cut’ for young people: populist or progressive?
Some of the criticism of Labour’s welfare plans is misplaced.
James Turner Street exists: Benefits Street doesn’t
52 per cent of the people in the areas where Benefits Street was filmed are in employment.
How the public massively overestimates benefit fraud
The huge discrepancy between the reality and public perceptions of benefit fraud legitimates government reforms and backs Labour into a political corner.
Fraser “see no evidence” Nelson wrong on UK benefits generosity
Declan Gaffney disproves Fraser Nelson’s claims that UK benefits “are some of the most generous in Europe”.
The benefits Britons want to save are the ones the Tories want to cut
Declan Gaffney examines Progress’ report on the support for benefits cuts in depth, and finds that it doesn’t show what it purports to show
Will the government take away money from disabled people on a hunch?
The coalition is cutting support to people with disabilities without having piloted changes. Are ministers willing to hurt the most vulnerable on a hunch?
Everyone concerned about welfare reform needs to step up to the mark
Declan Gaffney with the latest from the “Spartacus Report” into Responsible Reform of social security.
Labour’s untenable position on social security and disability
Controversy rages about Liam Byrne and Labour’s developing position on social security reform as indicated in articles in the Daily Mail and The Guardian.
Does the child poverty agenda now belong to the Conservatives?
Declan Gaffney looks at the British Social Attitudes Survey 2011 and asks whether the child poverty agenda now belongs to Iain Duncan Smith’s Conservatives.