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The policy is uniquely flawed, with multiple faults. Of course, if government throws over £60 billion of subsidies to a minority of firms and workers, that will be popular with the recipients. But a scheme should be judged by what it does for the many, not the few, and for its opportunity cost.
For three hundred years, care work and care labour have been woefully trivialised or ignored by economists. One is inclined to think this is partly due to the domination of
The pandemic has exposed how dependent on care we are not only as individuals, but as a society. But our care system, already struggling well before the outbreak of the
PEF Council members recently discussed, via email, the government’s plans for social care and its financing. We were unanimous in agreeing on the bad design of the scheme, on the
The Conservative government looks set to announce that it will be introducing a rise in National Insurance Contributions of up to 1.25 percent on Tuesday this week. The intention is
see film clips of PEF Council members explaining the purpose of PEF’s new book, The Return of the State
“Work is the ultimate escape from poverty. But the futile sort demanded by the United Kingdom’s income-support scheme puts many of society’s weakest members on a path to nowhere, because it reflects a welfare ideology that fails to distinguish fantasy from reality”
“After decades of assault by state-shrinking ideologues, a collision of crises has revealed how only the power of good government can save us. Covid, climate catastrophe and Brexit crashed in on a public realm stripped bare by a decade of extreme austerity. Here all the best writers and thinkers on the good society show recovery is possible, with a radical rethink of all the old errors. Read this, and feel hope that things can change. ”
Polly Toynbee
Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson discuss how greater equality is the key to reining in consumerism and waste to achieve carbon neutrality and sustainable well being
Universal Credit is and has been from its outset a disaster, It is mean-spirited, over-complicated, punitive and moralistic. This is the time to put it to sleep. Now is the time for UBI pilots to test variants of a basic income for one year, and then evaluate them.
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