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Ruth Lister: After New Labour: High earners could pay more without feeling it...
High earners could pay more without feeling it and the poor would keep spendingThe economic crisis has seen the government act with a boldness of which many doubted it was capable. Similar boldness is...
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Labour must do more on child poverty | Ruth Lister
Labour's good progress on its child poverty goals has stalled – there is still time for bold measures on benefits, taxation and payThe proposed bill to place a legal duty on the government to abolish...
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Our social security system must guarantee real welfare | Ruth Lister
From a common aspiration, welfare has been turned into a notion that sets 'the poor' apart from the rest of societyAs the welfare reform bill heads for the House of Lords next month it is worth pausing...
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The welfare reform bill is a sharp shove to the vulnerable | Ruth Lister
The government seems to believe its bill is a subtle nudge towards enhanced responsibility for those on benefits. It's wrongHailed by government as "the most fundamental reforms to the social security...
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The discretionary social fund: a lifeline the government wants to cut | Ruth...
The welfare reform bill allows the state to wash its hands of all responsibility for the ultimate safety netPeers have an opportunity today to protect the ultimate safety net of the social security...
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Labour's line in the sand on benefits | Ruth Lister
George Osborne's rhetorical traps won't make Labour turn against people already struggling to get by on benefitsEvery so often there comes a political moment when a line has to be drawn in the sand....
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Benefit cuts: how the language of welfare poisoned our social security | Ruth...
Successive governments prepared the ground for these savage cuts by importing the terminology of dependency from the US"April is the cruellest month": how true TS Eliot's words will ring for millions...
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Did Ed Miliband's social security speech get it right? | The panel
Our panel scrutinises the Labour leader's speech on issues from housing to long-term unemploymentJohn Harris: 'Left will see Tory cruelty, right will be unconvinced'As Ed Miliband said, there are a...
View ArticleIt's time responsible companies committed to paying a decent wage
Rhetoric of responsibility is levelled at the poor, while much less is said about irresponsible employers who pay low wagesPublic anger at irresponsible capitalism is based on the perception of...
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