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Declan Gaffney

The practical response to our society’s widening inequality? A partial basic income

Declan Gaffney Karen Buck
3 September, 2018

Following Natalie Bennett’s argument for a universal basic income, Karen Buck MP and Declan Gaffney argue there is an easier, more practical option.

Labour’s ‘benefit cut’ for young people: populist or progressive?

Declan Gaffney
19 June, 2014

Some of the criticism of Labour’s welfare plans is misplaced.

James Turner Street exists: Benefits Street doesn’t

Declan Gaffney
23 January, 2014

52 per cent of the people in the areas where Benefits Street was filmed are in employment.

How the public massively overestimates benefit fraud

Declan Gaffney
13 June, 2012

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
8 June, 2012

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
28 February, 2012

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?

Declan Gaffney
17 January, 2012

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
10 January, 2012

Declan Gaffney with the latest from the “Spartacus Report” into Responsible Reform of social security.

Labour’s untenable position on social security and disability

Declan Gaffney
3 January, 2012

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
7 December, 2011

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.

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