26th February 2012

The Housing Debate, by Stuart Lowe

Policy Press, 2011, 1 847 42273 6, pbk, 280pp, £14.99 Stuart Lowe’s The Housing Debate takes a refreshingly broad view of housing and welfare. Rather than a balanced introduction for Read More

6th February 2012

Interview: Social insurance is not for the Indian open economy of the 21st century

This interview with Guy Standing first appeared in The Times of India, Crest edition, 9th July 2011, and we are grateful for permission to reprint it. The interview was conducted Read More

6th February 2012

Citizen’s Income News, Spring 2012

The Pensions Policy Institute has published a report: An assessment of the Government’s options for state pension reform. The report concludes that the Government’s second option, a single tier state Read More

6th February 2012

Taxation

In this issue of the Citizen’s Income Newsletter three of the book reviews are on the same theme: Taxation. We review the publications which have emerged from the Mirrlees review, Read More

26th January 2012

Understanding Social Citizenship, by Peter Dwyer

2nd edn, Policy Press, 2010, xix + 260 pp, hbk 1 847 42329 0, £65, pbk 1 847 42328 3, £19.99 The number of degree course modules on ‘citizenship’ is Read More

26th December 2011

Gender Inequalities, Households and the Production of Well-Being in Modern Europe

By Tindara Addabbo, Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga, Cristina Borderias and Alastair Owens. Ashgate, 2010, xx + 318 pp, hbk, 0 754 67968 4, £65. The symposium in Barcelona which gave birth to this edited Read More

26th November 2011

Low-Income Students and the Perpetuation of Inequality, by Gary A. Berg

Ashgate, 2010, xiv + 198 pp, hbk, 1 409 40154 4, £55. In the United States of America, ‘college is a principle mechanism through which privilege is passed on from Read More

26th October 2011

Fighting Poverty, Inequality and Injustice: A manifesto inspired by Peter Townsend, edited by Alan Walker, Adrian Sinfield and Carol Walker

Polity Press, 2011, xiii + 312 pp, pbk, 1 847 42714 4, £21.99, hbk, 1 847 42715 1, £65 Peter Townsend died in 2009, having done more than anyone else Read More

6th October 2011

Citizen’s Income News, Autumn 2011

On the 9th March the Financial Times reported that Hong Kong has paid HK$6,000 (about £470) to every resident. The recent Hong Kong budget has led to local anger that Read More

6th October 2011

The Citizen’s Income Trust’s response to the Department for Work and Pensions’ consultation paper A State Pension for the 21st Century, April 2011, Cm 8053.

The Government has published a consultation paper on the reform of the State pension system, and the Citizen’s Income Trust has submitted a response. Here we print excerpts from the Read More