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Welfare & Social Security

Housing Benefit Reform

Housing Benefit Reform .The UK has a complicated system of benefits for housing payments. While demand-side subsidies these are of great assistance in making housing affordable for those on low incomes they also create poverty and unemployment traps as people seek to move into work or work longer hours. In "Hope for Housing Benefit" Daniel Brewer from Pivot sets out a four year programme for gradually reforming the Housing Benefit system published by Pivot

 

By Pivot. , UK .

Welfare and Social Security Policy Resource.


Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion

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Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion.This report shows the progress of the UK government in tackling poverty and social exclusion across a range of fronts. While much has been achieved in reducing income poverty and burglaries, much more remains to be done on measures such as homelessness. "Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion" by Guy Palmer, Mohibur Rahman and Peter Kenway - published by the New Policy Institute / Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

 

By New Policy Institute / Joseph Rowntree Foundation. , UK .

Welfare and Social Security Policy Resource.


Crisis calls for radical reform of public services

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Crisis calls for radical reform of public services Public services are failing homeless people. They should offer vital support but many homeless people find them complicated, confusing and bogged down in red tape.

 

By Crisis, UK.

Human Rights Policy Resource.


NEW LAW SIGNALS FINAL CURTAIN FOR PRESS FREEDOM IN YEMEN

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NEW LAW SIGNALS FINAL CURTAIN FOR PRESS FREEDOM IN YEMEN.29 November 2005. As the Yemeni government prepares to push its draft Press and Publications Law through the Shura Council, ARTICLE 19 warns that the proposal may signal the end of the government?s brief experiment with press freedom and democracy.

 

By Article 19, UK.

Human Rights Policy Resource.


Child Poverty in Britain and Germany

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Child Poverty in Britain and Germany This report studies patterns and trends in child poverty in Britain and Germany. Unusually, it uses not only a cross-section approach (measuring who and how many are poor at any given time, and comparing these maps of poverty at different moments); but also longitudinal studies of individuals' poverty "careers", and the trigger events associated with entry into and exit from poverty. By Stephen Jenkins, Christian Schluter, Gert Wagner.

 

By AGF,Germany, UK.

Welfare and Social Security Policy Resource.