Tag: welfare
Publications
- Briefing: Spending Review 2015
- What is aspiration?
- Briefing: The Tax Lock
- The First 100 Days
- Briefing: Manifesto summary - the smaller parties
- Election 2015: What’s at stake for social security?
- Election 2015: What’s at stake for the NHS?
- Tackling the housing crisis
- The Great British Rip Off
- In the public interest
- Public services
- Why immigration is good for all of us
- Reconstruction after the Crisis: A Manifesto for Collective Bargaining
- Financing the Social State
- The Case for Universalism
- Exposing the Myths of Welfare
- Abolishing Want in a Social State
- Tackling Squalor
- Achieving a Social State
- Why Inequality Matters
Blog
- Dr Faiza Shaheen: Youth week roundup
- Lloyds cuts 3,000 jobs: where’s the accountability?
- Theresa May’s brand of inequality
- What can we expect from today’s budget?
- Looking ahead: what Class did next
- How our social security system holds back low-paid workers
- Spending Review 2015: Still failing to invest in women’s security
- Spending review 2015: Our Panel’s Reaction
- Spending review 2015: Your Guide
- The closure of Eaves charity is the tip of the iceberg in the crisis for women’s services
- Our study shows that economic recession leads to increased levels of suicide
- We need a fairer deal for members of the armed forces
- Benefit advisers in foodbanks: a backwards step
- Tax credit cuts and the Living Wage: Do the numbers stack up?
- Low-paid workers – worse off next year and even worse off in 2020
- Cutting vital income and stigmatising the low paid? The Conservatives are no workers’ party
- It’s time to change the debate on migration
- Against Aspiration
- How the Conservatives are ‘strengthening’ child poverty measures in the UK
- A £12bn cut in welfare will put huge pressure on the NHS
- Five ways to deliver a good budget
- Budget 2015: Our panel’s reaction
- With this budget, the Chancellor is taking us into unknown territory
- Child benefit and the fight against poverty
- First 100 Days - Ensuring Gender Equality
- First 100 Days - Restoring Power to Working People
- First 100 Days - Eradicating Poverty
- Political action must be taken to eliminate food banks from the national landscape
- Labour and Conservatives: the manifestos
- The government’s evidence-free policy on benefit sanctions
- What to expect from the 2015 budget
- This election will decide whether the NHS will survive or perish
- Look after employment and the budget deficit will take care of itself
- How can we reduce the need for food banks?
- Autumn Statement 2014: Seven thinkers share their views
- Time for more working-class women in Parliament
- Conservative Party Conference: The view from the library next door
- Whose recovery is it?
- The link between the rise of food banks and the rolling back of the welfare state
- How to Regulate Zero Hours Contracts
- Low pay and increased job insecurity: the state of single parent employment
- Securing the future of our public services
- The Bedroom tax by numbers
- Fighting austerity: why we need to talk about human rights
- The key to reducing inequality? Stronger trade unions
- What to make of the IPPR report
- Sanctioning job seekers who refuse zero-hours contracts is counterproductive
- Why Britain needs to end hunger fast
- What can we expect from Budget 2014?
- Paying the highest price: Austerity will accelerate area health inequalities
- Join me to debate The Great British Rip Off in Newcastle this evening
- What is the most pressing issue for British women today?
- UK: manifestly inadequate
- During Debt Awareness Week people are turning to payday lenders to stay afloat
- Where are the stories about in-work poverty?
- What would a further £25bn of spending cuts mean for child poverty?
- What Labour needs to do in 2014
- Our big challenge - Solidarity in the face of insecurity
- There are some things too important to be left to the market
- There is a feasible and popular alternative to austerity
- Households are being excluded from the benefits of growth
- Momentum is moving in our direction - bold policies have popular support
- Instead of blaming ordinary people we should be explaining the reasons for falling living standards
- The market is broken
- Attacks on legal aid will mean access to justice is only for the rich
- The Socialist Way
- No real economic change will be felt until income inequality is reduced
- How the Government is creating a climate of fear for migrants and ethnic minorities
- The government needs to take the growth of payday lenders more seriously
- Mervyn King’s rosy recovery prediction means little for a shattered nation
- Involuntary idleness represents a massive waste of economic resources
- We need to challenge the myths that poison attempts at progressive change
- Why we need a political campaign to reinstate the NHS
- It’s time for new priorities to tackle want
- Investment in social housing - the best way out of today’s squalor
- The bedroom tax - a prime example that class politics are still relevant
- Reviving the Beveridge vision of a Social State
- Stop pushing people into poverty and get serious about job creation
- Social State: Who are the real scroungers?
- Social State: The Most Important Part of the Welfare State: The NHS
- Social State: Austerity - An Exercise in Divide and Rule
- Social State: Exploding the scrounger myth
- Social State: The return of squalor
- Social State: Reclaiming Education for All
- The Austerity Strategy Has Failed - March for A Future That Works
- The chicanery of this week’s economics
- This is a crisis for most – but it’s still boom time for those at the top
- Our young people deserve a secure future
- Radical change is needed to tackle the housing crisis
- It’s time to stop kicking people at the bottom
Latest news
- Read all about the Class Election 2015 Series: What’s at stake?
- Class Conference 2014: The Film
- Class Conference 2014: The Photos
- Class Conference 2014: The Highlights
- Guide to conference sessions and debates
- We hear your views on the living standards crisis in advance of our regional tour of events
- Class at conference season: Submit your events for our Progressive Guide to Labour Party Conference
- Class and Red Pepper launch first in a series of mythbusters: Exposing the myths of welfare
- Podcast now available - Achieving a Social State @ LSE
- Class and LSE Politics blog host lively debate on the Social State
- John Hendy QC joins the panel for the Achieving a Social State event
