Welfare
The welfare cap ties a Labour government to ‘predistribution’
The welfare cap could help focus attention on the drivers of benefit spending.
Labour should oppose the Welfare Cap, which doesn’t protect those in greatest need
The welfare cap is a regressive measure which hits the poor hardest.
The Work Programme: just 1 in 20 ESA claimants have found work through the scheme
The latest batch of Work Programme data were released today. New quarter; similar results: a programme doing acceptably for some, but for others not.
Duncan Smith department promoting ‘negative perceptions’ of benefit claimants
A group of MPs has slammed the government for using official statistics inaccurately to spin stories about benefit claimants.
Migration Watch’s latest report: a ‘stark misapprehension’ and ‘simply wrong’
'Immigrants cost Britain £3,000 a year each', booms today's Daily Telegraph. They are completely and utterly wrong.
How to control welfare spending: build houses and raise the minimum wage
There are more progressive ways to control spending than bashing the poor.