10th January 2016

Terminology

One area in which transparency is somewhat lacking is in relation to terminology. A tax credit – a real one – is paid by someone’s employer or the tax authorities Read More

10th January 2016

The Adam Smith Institute and a Negative Income Tax

The Adam Smith Institute has contributed to the current debate on income maintenance by publishing Free Market Welfare: The case for a negative income tax. The Institute summarises the report: Read More

10th January 2016

Transparency

In his July 2015 budget statement, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, promised to increase the Income Tax Personal Allowance to £12,500 and the Higher Rate Threshold to £50,000 Read More

10th January 2016

Citizen’s Income News: January 2016

The Resolution Foundation has published a report, Making the most of UC: Final report of the Resolution Foundation review of Universal Credit: ‘Today’s high withdrawal rates mean that, for many Read More

10th January 2016

Clear Blue Water? The Conservative Party and the welfare state since 1940, by Robert Page

Policy Press, 2015, 1 84742 986 5, hbk, x + 201 pp, £70 The Conservative Party is again in power, and this time untrammelled by a coalition partner. The 2015 Read More

10th January 2016

Policy Change, Public Attitudes and Social Citizenship: Does Neoliberalism Matter? by Louise Humpage

Policy Press, 2015, 1 84742 965 0, hbk, ix + 288 pp, £75 This thorough and important book by a New Zealand academic studies changing public attitudes to welfare provisions Read More

10th January 2016

Future Work: Changing organizational culture for the new world of work, by Alison Maitland and Peter Thomson

2nd edition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 1 137 36715 0, hbk, xix + 231 pp, £18.99 For these authors, ‘future work’ is something that is happening and it is something that Read More

10th January 2016

Who Needs Jobs? Spreading poverty or increasing welfare, by Pierre Lemieux

Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, viii + 201 pp, pbk, 1 137 35505 8, £19 This book puts together some very simple connected ideas: that the economy’s task is to produce what Read More

10th January 2016

The Shame of It: Global Perspectives on Anti-poverty Policies, by Erika K. Gubrium, Sony Pellissery and Ivar Lødemel (eds)

Policy Press, 2014, xiii + 231 pp, hbk, 1 44730 871 3, £70, pbk, 1 44730 870 6, £24.99. As the title of this book suggests, at its heart is Read More

10th January 2016

Social Policies and Social Control: New perspectives on the ‘not-so-big’ society, by Malcolm Harrison and Teela Sanders (eds)

Policy Press, 2014, xi + 272 pp, hbk, 1 44731 074 7, £70 The agenda is this: Politicians frequently claim to support liberty and empowerment. Yet governments and political leaders Read More