Tag Archives: welfare

Benefits: Fact and Fiction

Posted on July 16, 2013 by Robert de Vries

As part of the International Year of Statistics (by the way, it’s also the International Year of Water Cooperation, and the International Year of Quinoa, so good quinoa recipes in the comments please), Ipsos Mori recently conducted a survey looking … Continue reading →

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‘Infrahumanizing’ benefit claimants

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Robert de Vries

I’ve written before about how I think a lot of people’s antipathy towards the benefits system comes from their ideas about the sort of people benefits claimants are. That they are a special, different sort of person that is unworthy of … Continue reading →

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Lying with statistics

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Robert de Vries

In the midst of the argument we in the UK are currently having about welfare, it’s worth highlighting one factor that’s standing in the way of honest debate. This is politicians’ routine, wilful abuse of numbers. It’s an old complaint. … Continue reading →

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Immigration reform without public benefits

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Brendan Saloner

Any viable immigration reform proposal in the United States senate has to pass through Florida Republican Marcio Rubio. That’s why it was big news when Rubio announced his support for a bipartisan plan on the Sunday news shows, stressing that … Continue reading →

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British and U.S. Inequality Over the Lifecourse: An Important New Report

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Brendan Saloner

Ben and I both attended the Social Change Harvard-Manchester Initiative (SCHMi) summer institute in 2010, a joint program between the University of Manchester and Harvard. A core group of SCHMi researchers just released a report, authored by Rourke O’Brien (also … Continue reading →

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When are we going to stop banging on about benefits?

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Robert de Vries

Does the amount we spend on benefits for the unemployed justify the attention they get? We write a lot about welfare benefits on this blog. They’re an important part of social policy that rarely spends long out of the newspaper … Continue reading →

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