Welfare
The paradoxical stability of welfare expenditure (and why we should be spending more)
Whether they express their views in the élite language of economic or fiscal ‘unsustainability’ or the demotic of ‘welfare scoungers’, everyone apart from a handful of unreconstructed egalitarians seems to agree that welfare spending is too high.
IDS told to get on his bike
Iain Duncan Smith has called for social tenants to be more prepared to move to find work where none exists where they live. However, nowhere has concern over the plan provoked such negative reaction to the Government's position than across Scotland and Wales.
Economic growth & fall in unemployment key to tacking child poverty
The best way to tackle child poverty is to tackle welfare dependency, shadow work and pensions minister Helen Goodman has said.
Failure to extend free school meals will cost poorest families £600 a year
The Tories and Lib Dems have just condemned 50,000 children to continue a life in poverty with their decision not to extend free school meals to 500,000 of the poorest families.
IDS welfare reforms won’t provide the support needed to escape poverty
Ian Duncan Smith’s first speech as work and pensions secretary, was an impassioned call to eradicate poverty, primarily by improving work incentives.
IFS: Brown “mitigated” income inequality
The Institute for Fiscal Studies this morning gave its verdict on Labour’s inequality record. In a spoof of the Conservative […]