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This blog is based on an article in the Journal of Social Policy bt Kitty Stewart, Ruth Patrick and Aaron Reeves. Click here to access the article. A child’s risk of poverty changes considerably depending on how many siblings they have. Until very recently this fact was largely neglected in UK poverty analysis, though there… Continue reading Almost All the Variation in Child Poverty Since 1997 is Concentrated in Larger Families
This blog is based on an article in the Journal of Social Policy by David Clifford, Diarmuid McDonnell and John Mohan. Click here to access the article. What have been the financial implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for the charitable sector? So far - despite consistent and widespread concern about the recent challenges faced by the charitable sector… Continue reading Charitable Income and the Covid-19 Pandemic
This blog is based on an article in the Journal of Social Policy by Suzan Mbatudde Skjold and Kjetil Grimastad Lundberg. Click here to access the article. As a response to persistent unemployment and marginalisation of persons with complex support needs, welfare states have intensified their policy initiatives towards people who are considered not in… Continue reading Accountability in Personalised Supported Activation Services
This blog is based on an article in the Journal of Social Policy by Hayley McKenzie, Rebecca Lindberg and Fiona McKay. Click here to access the article. Despite 26 per cent of Australians aged over 16 years receiving some form of government income support, more than one in ten Australians live in poverty. The cause… Continue reading Using Food Charity to Fill the Gaps in the Australian Welfare State
This blog is based on an article in Social Policy and Society by Linda Cook and Mike Titterton. Click here to access the article. Why We Compare Comparisons, as Teddy Roosevelt famously complained, might well be the “thief of joy”. They are, nonetheless, the bread and butter of scholars trying to comprehend how and why… Continue reading Can We Compare Russian and European Welfare Polities?
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