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Tim Boswell, MP, All Party Parliamentary Group for Social Science and Policy

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A Community-Based Guaranteed Income

Guaranteed Income (GI) is usually defined as an income provided by a government to all adult members of a given nation at a uniform, fixed level, and at regular intervals. 

Jobs and Income Strategies for the Twenty-First Century

In the United States, ’welfare‘ and the politics of welfare – cash assistance for families, generally female-headed single-parent families with children – have been treated as...

Guaranteed Income as a Replacement for the Welfare State

A guaranteed income (GI) that replaces the welfare state is not currently on the political agenda, but it offers the possibility for a grand compromise that could attract a...

The Feasibility of a Basic Income

This policy brief will discuss some normative and political aspects of the feasibility of a welfare reform based upon the idea of a basic income.

Pension Crisis or Pension Rethink?

There exists a widespread conviction that pension protection, along with many other social benefits, is slowly being eroded as responsibility for insurance and the associated...

The Rise in Uncertainty and Reforms of Social Security Systems in Chile and Sweden

In the new society, the individual and the family are subject to substantial increases in uncertainty in the economic environment.

Disability Benefit Reform and the Contract for Income Support

Many social security institutions are in the process of reforming their disability benefit programmes in an effort to reduce historically high numbers of beneficiaries on the...

Empirical and Normative Claims in Social Contract Arguments

This report provides both a record and a critical assessment of the first workshop of the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society Programme on The Social Contract Revisited:...

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