The DWP’s ‘scrounger’ rhetoric is causing real harm
Following today’s news six major disability charities have warned the government about its use of ‘scrounger’ rhetoric, we look at how widespread it has become.
Social Justice
We’re all in this together… But they aren’t
In just one day, there have been two cases of better treatment for those at the top than at the bottom. Are we really all in this together, asks Alex Hern.
Caring for the elderly: Why cross-party reform is overdue
Reema Patel details why Britain needs to reform how we care for the elderly in the UK – but explains why it won’t be easy.
Is Clegg’s tax threshold plan the best way to reduce income inequality?
Nick Clegg’s tax threshold plans go half way to addressing the problem of working poverty, but it goes no way towards addressing the cause.
Busting the means testing myth
Andrew Harrop presents the evidence against increasing means-testing – universalism is the key to ensuring a well-funded welfare state.
The 12 practical problems of localising public sector pay
Neil Foster presents 12 problems with the government’s unfair, unworkable, and regressive plan to localise public sector pay.
Life on the dole is not a walk in the park
Alex Hern highlights an appalling testimonial by an unemployed man speaking to Radio 5 yesterday. It is a must-listen.
The real squeezed middle could stagnate for 20 years
Joe Coward writes about the real ‘squeezed middle’, and details how it could take until 2020 for their income to reach the level it was in 2001.
Cable fails to provide a stick or carrot in the fight against obscene pay
Duncan Exley writes about Cable’s failure to properly provide a stick or carrot to back up his words about tackling high executive pay
Where is Labour on welfare?
Vincenzo Rampulla asks what the real Beveridge heritage is, and whether shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne is going the right way to achieving it.