social welfare
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Stop the War on Welfare Petition reaches 100,000 signatures
December 12th, 2013 was, for many of us, a small moment of celebration as the WOW Petition ended with over 104,000 signatures and triggered the eligibility for consideration by the Back Bench Business Committee (BBBC). Continue reading
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The War on Welfare: From ‘Social Security’ to ‘Social Insecurity’ By Bruce Bennett and Imogen Tyler
In this article, we explore the shift from liberal understandings of state government as providers of a ‘safety-net’ between individual citizens and the market (through the crafting of systems of social security), to forms of government characterized by the production of terrorizing forms of social insecurity. Three years after The Sun’s 2010 declaration of war… Continue reading