UBS – sustainable social safety for the 21st century
The report said those at risk of hunger over the summer include more than 1 million children who receive free school meals during term time, and 2 million more with working parents who are still in poverty.
People in more equal societies are more willing to help each other, trust each other, and to take part in community life.
The impact of inadequate or ill-designed social care services on the overall state of the health service has become the stuff of daily headlines
It is not an exaggeration to say that the welfare state and the open economy have been flip sides of the same coin during much of the twentieth century.
Given the ability of smartphones to connect users to government services, lawmakers should consider making them more widely available.
Universal benefits are popular and resilient.
Andrew Dilnot says adult social care system is ‘most pernicious means-test’ in the British welfare state.
Insurance is ineffective if it ignores the context in which individuals find themselves, if there is none of the civic fabric of a thriving economy.
One in four low-income households does not eat regularly or healthily because of a lack of money, Food Standards Agency says.
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