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Published in: 50.50Where have all the jobs gone?Jobs are disappearing in the UK, wages are dropping, and there is a shocking absence of political debate about the...
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Published in: 50.50UK feminists: fighting for rights not privilegeThe utter disregard for women that austerity represents has galvanised and united women at a time where we are...
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Published in: 50.50How women are paying for the recession in the UKIt was predictable and in fact predicted. The British Government’s austerity programme has turned back the clock on...
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Published in: 50.50The women who make a drama out of rough justice
A London-based theatre company founded by two women prisoners will take a play about trafficked girls to the UK’s...
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Published in: 50.50Staying alive in Britain : can the poor afford it?
As the number of families in Britain with at least one working parent fall below the poverty threshold and 'payday...
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Published in: 50.50The 'Obamacare' challenge to American individualism
Why don't Americans want universal health care ? And what is it about American political culture that causes the...
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Published in: 50.50Welcome to my home, welcome to my hellThe scandal of those in Britain with no shelter at all is well-known, but what of the "housed homeless" and the...
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Published in: 50.50"Food sovereignty" as a transformative model of economic power
The argument is being made that “food sovereignty” is an organising principle so demonstrably strong that it has the...
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Published in: 50.50Women defining economic citizenship
How can we empower women to participate in existing economic structures and also transform them? We need a model of...
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Published in: 50.50Reclaiming care as a fundamental end in itself
In the global context of economic insecurity and emerging 'care crises', there is a real risk that the development...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKLegal aid: a welfare service?
As the legal aid bill reaches its final stage, Britain’s welfare state is set to take another debilitating blow. In...
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Published in: Shine A LightLegal aid and arbitrary power
Today marks the final reading of the legal aid bill in the Lords. If - as seems likely - the bill goes through,...
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Published in: 50.50Gender and destitution in the UK
The real migration scandal in the UK are the people forced to live without any recourse to public funds. Migrant...
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Published in: 50.50The feminisation of poverty and the myth of the 'welfare queen'
Governments are constructing social policy based on misrepresentations and stereotypes about poor people and welfare...
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Published in: 50.50How far have Human Rights advanced when poverty is so widespread?
If the measure of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable, then societies everywhere have cause to be...
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Published in: 50.50South Africa: the values we fought for
Inequality in South Africa has deepened since 1994. Respect for fundamental rights, including socio-economic rights,...
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Published in: 50.50Nicaragua: the road to 'pacification'
The transformation of Managua's road system should be seen as a case of “infrastructural violence” which is...
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Published in: 50.50Public lives, private anguish
It is time to recognise that punishing the homeless for performing necessary, life-sustaining activities in public,...
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Published in: Shine A LightThrough the eyes of a benefits adviser: a plea for a basic income
Constant fear, routine humiliation, no escape: this isn't prison, but life on incapacity benefit in the United...
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Published in: 50.50India's war on its poor
"They forced us to sit naked in a row and splashed a mug of water on each of us". Bashirabi is a poor vegetable...
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