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Slide: 30.05.19 Basic Income and Disability Building on his work with Jim Elder-Woodward, Simon Duffy outlines the case for using basic income principles to…
Article: 23.05.19 Shameful Attack on Disabled People Brian Collinge explains how the government's failure to update the Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG) for people…
Handbook: 14.05.19 How to Support the UBI Movement How to get involved in advocating for basic income.
Paper: 07.03.19 Money as a Human Right Maria Lyons combines an analysis of economics with an understanding of inclusion to offer a radical argument for basic…
Article: 12.02.19 Childcare Policy and the Economy Childcare policy in the UK wrongly assumes that professionalised solutions are always best for children and…
Film: 06.02.19 What is a basic income? A great short film produced by the Spanish Campaign Group RedRentaBasica.
Paper: 04.02.19 UBI and Health Research shows why basic income will have very positive health impacts & why welfare conditionality is harmful.
Article: 19.12.18 Health Needs Equality Mike Grady makes the health case for radical cross-government reforms to end poverty, reduce inequality and building…
Story: 18.12.18 How Can We Know What People Need? What Barbro Borge learned at the Manavodaya Institute International Facilitation Course on a Carl Poll Scholarship.
Story: 03.12.18 The Injustice of Benefit Sanctions The welfare system has become punitive, even more bureaucratic and humiliating. It delivers pain instead of support…
Article: 27.11.18 Basic Income is Good for Your Health Anna-Carin Fagerlind Ståhl explains why long-standing evidence of work and health argues for the benefits of basic…
Film: 10.08.18 Does Money Make You Mean? In this TEDx film, Paul Piff shares his research into how people behave when they feel wealthy.
Article: 06.07.18 What is the alternative to neoliberalism? Simon Duffy reflects on the intellectual and practical challenge facing thinkers opposed to the current neoliberal…
Article: 06.06.18 Lowering the Complexity Bar Chris Ware explains why homelessness is not just a function of poverty but also of the increasing complexity of modern…
Article: 17.04.18 Basic Income or Basic Services Dr Simon Duffy reflects on the debate between Barb Jacobson and Anna Coote on the respective merits of UBI or UBS.
Film: 16.03.18 The Cure for Poverty is Money Poverty isn't a lack of character it's a lack of cash argues historian Rutger Bregman in his TED film.
Film: 12.02.18 Basic Income is About Freedom Anne van Dalen explains why basic income is about freedom - the chance to explore what you want to do and escape the…
Reviews: 05.09.17 Reclaiming the Common Good A review of Reclaiming the Common Good: How Christians can help re-build a broken world, a collection of essays edited…
Story: 07.08.17 Basic Income Changed My Life Anne van Dalen describes the positive impact that the freedom and security of basic income had on her life.
Article: 05.06.17 The Politics of Poverty Dr Simon Duffy explores ONS data on inequality and poverty and tries to get behind the myths and lies used to exploit the…
Graphic: 05.06.17 Public Expenditure & GDP (1976-2019) Data on public spending in the UK suggests that public spending has oscillated around 40% and seems utterly…
Graphic: 05.06.17 How Incomes Changed (percent) (1977-2014) Between 1977 and 2014 tax and benefit policy has been designed primarily to life the incomes of middle-income families
Graphic: 05.06.17 How Incomes Changed (1977-2014) Between 1977 and 2014 tax and benefit policy in the UK has been designed primarily to lift the incomes of middle-income…
Graphic: 05.06.17 Changing Post-Tax-Benefit Incomes (1977-2014) Government policy, from 1977 to 2014 has primarily focused on lifting the incomes of middle-income groups while…
Graphic: 05.06.17 Changing Income Distribution (1977-2014) Between 1977 and 2014 the most dramatic changes incomes were of the richest, whose incomes increased radically, and…
Graphic: 05.06.17 The Different Kinds of UK Benefits Benefit expenditure is primarily focused on pensions, housing costs and the collapse in middle-income salaries.
Graphic: 05.06.17 Real Poverty Poverty is not just lack of money, its also isolation, disadvantage and exclusion
Graphic: 05.06.17 How Benefits are Distributed Graphic:
Graphic: 05.06.17 Growth v Equality Since 1949 income inequality has got progressively worse, however this has no positive economic effect on growth.
Album: 09.05.17 Relative Poverty Materials developed by Les Monaghan as part of his project to show the reality of poverty in modern Britain.
Film: 27.04.17 Cuts Target Disabled People Dr Simon Duffy explains to Anton French Films how Government policy has targeted cuts on disabled people.
Article: 24.04.17 One Good Thing Malcolm Henry imagines a conversation between a leader of the Labour Party and Andrew Neil on the topic of Universal…
Paper: 21.04.17 State Crime by Proxy In this paper Mo Stewart continues her research into the links between the DWP, Atos Healthcare & Unum Insurance.
Paper: 20.04.17 UBI: A Psychological Impact Assessment An important report which sets out the case for Universal Basic Income (UBI) from the perspective of psychologists.
Story: 07.03.17 Carers Benefits and Basic Income Citizen K explores the strange paradoxes of the UK's benefit system and argues for a system of basic income.
Article: 31.01.17 A Social Movement for Basic Income Bill Jordan describes how the idea of basic income inspired a pre-War social movement and wonders whether the same…
Paper: 02.08.16 Replacing Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) This research by Stef Benstead and Emma Nock, published by Ekklesia, looks at the support needs of people with chronic…
Slide: 24.07.16 The Politics of Poverty In this presentation for an Anti-Poverty Conference organised by Bolsover CVP, Simon Duffy explores some of the myths…
Paper: 19.07.16 Life in Bolsover Today Inequality in the UK has doubled in a generation and the consequences are felt most harshly in places like Bolsover as…
Article: 19.07.16 Exploring the Meaning of Poverty Poverty isolates and divides us. It leaves us thinking we are not good enough and we are too poor to spend time with…
Film: 15.04.16 And This Time It's Personal WellRedFilms explores the underpinnings of the psycho-coercive practices endorsed by the government with leading…
Paper: 13.04.16 Submission on Social Security 2016 In partnership with Ekklesia the Centre for Welfare Reform made a submission to the UK Liberal Democrats policy review…
Paper: 13.04.16 In the Expectation of Recovery George Faulkner's report outlines how misleading medical research has been used to support disability cuts.
Slide: 05.04.16 Farewell to Welfare Simon Duffy gave this talk on the demise of the welfare state under the leadership of the UK's Conservative Party at the…
Article: 22.03.16 Open Letter to Stephen Crabb Ekklesia and the Centre for Welfare Reform have published a letter to Stephen Crabb calling for an end to policies…
Article: 22.03.16 The Problem with Mandatory Reconsideration Eri Mountbatten outlines the worrying results from a recent survey of it's members by the National Association of…
Paper: 22.03.16 Citizenship and the Welfare State Exploring the role of citizenship in the definition and defence of the welfare state.
Story: 22.03.16 A Student Nurse and the DWP Rebecca Allen explains what happens when a student nurse falls ill and needs assistance from the benefit system in the…
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