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
Looking at progress against the pillars of the Beveridge welfare state: health, housing and education, many commentators have identified housing as the ‘wobbly pillar’, starved of investment or ineffectively maintained. Read More
Introduction [note]This paper was originally submitted at the 13th International Congress of the Basic Income Earth Network in Sao Paulo, Brazil, June 2010. I would like to thank Armando Barrientos, Read More
Anne Miller reviews the Department of Work and Pensions’ white paper, Universal Credit: welfare that works, Cmd 7957, briefly summarising the main proposals, and assessing to what extent the changes Read More
At a time when progressive social policies are under attack across the industrialized world, the Alaska Dividend continues to be extremely popular. It distributes a yearly dividend to every man, Read More
Introduction We begin our response with a question which the consultation document hasn’t asked: Income tax, National Insurance contributions, Tax Credits and welfare benefits together provide the structure for income Read More