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Lee Gregory Articles

Food banks show welfare is not working

Responding to household crises and low incomes within a turbulent economic context, food banks are a lifeline for families who would otherwise go hungry. As noted in my previous piece, the rise of food banks represents an attack on state welfare to secure a minimum...
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The right to food

The recent implication by Michael Gove that the increase in food bank use results from the inability of poorer families to manage their household finances illustrates the persistence of normative views of poverty and social exclusion. It also serves to maintain high...
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Poverty: back to the future

In recent months we have seen in the press that there is an increase in the number of food banks in the UK, loan sharks persist as a fundamental problem for tackling debt, and a whole range of welfare reforms are being implemented: from universal credit to the bedroom...
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Time and punishment

Since the late 1990s a community-based initiative known as time banking has developed in the UK. Towards the end of the previous Labour government some of these practices were being utilised in prison services. In power Labour was interested in expanding this idea,...
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