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Austerity alive and well in Wales and UBI in intensive care (2024)
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There have been many Universal Basic Income (UBI) pilots worldwide and a large literature has emerged outlining mostly positive findings but also acknowledging that no government has implemented the policy. In June 2022 the Welsh Government launched... Read More about Austerity alive and well in Wales and UBI in intensive care.

Modern welfare in the United Kingdom is a universal (dis)credit to Beveridge. Is it time for a basic income? (2024)
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Beck, D., Peters, R., Bridge, G., Poitier, F., & Pearson, B. (2024). Modern welfare in the United Kingdom is a universal (dis)credit to Beveridge. Is it time for a basic income?. Social Policy and Administration, https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.13002

Universal Credit signalled a revolution in the delivery and costs of welfare provisioning. UC aimed to reduce spending on welfare, but in doing so now threatens the stability of a functioning and cohesive society. Over recent years, and most notably... Read More about Modern welfare in the United Kingdom is a universal (dis)credit to Beveridge. Is it time for a basic income?.

Fathering and poverty: Uncovering men's participation in low‐income family life (2022)
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Experimenting with Unconditional Basic Income Lessons from the Finnish BI Experiment 2017‐2018, by Olli Kangas, Signe Jauhiainen, Miska Simanainen and Minna Ylikanno. 2021. ISBN: 978‐1‐83910‐484‐8 (2022)
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Beck, D. (2022). Experimenting with Unconditional Basic Income Lessons from the Finnish BI Experiment 2017‐2018, by Olli Kangas, Signe Jauhiainen, Miska Simanainen and Minna Ylikanno. 2021. ISBN: 978‐1‐83910‐484‐8. Social Policy and Administration, 57(3), 456-457. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12839

Book review

The food bank : a safety-net in place of welfare security in times of austerity and the Covid-19 crisis (2022)
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Beck, D., & Gwilym, H. (2022). The food bank : a safety-net in place of welfare security in times of austerity and the Covid-19 crisis. Social Policy and Society, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746421000907

The food bank has become a charitable safety-net for those who have been failed by the
social security system in times of austerity and during the Covid-19 pandemic. In this
article we evidence the rise of food banking in the context of declining s... Read More about The food bank : a safety-net in place of welfare security in times of austerity and the Covid-19 crisis.

Hannah Lambie-Mumford and Tiina Silvasti (eds) (2020), The Rise of Food Charity in Europe, Bristol: Policy Press, £75.00, pp. 272, hbk. (2021)
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Question; what is significant about the rise of food charity across various European countries? Explored with significant detail, this edited volume sufficiently answers this question by drawing on four key areas associated with the rise of food pove... Read More about Hannah Lambie-Mumford and Tiina Silvasti (eds) (2020), The Rise of Food Charity in Europe, Bristol: Policy Press, £75.00, pp. 272, hbk..

Welfare, populism and welfare chauvinismBentGreveBristol: Policy Press, 2020. <scp>ISBN</scp>: 9781447350446; £26.99 (Pbk) (2021)
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Poverty premiums : cost of being poor (2020)
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“Life is more expensive than we can tolerate” Linda Tirado (2014)

Poverty within a developed country is typically considered within “relative” terms. This means that people experience poverty relative to those within their society. This acknowled... Read More about Poverty premiums : cost of being poor.

The moral maze of food bank use (2020)
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The foodbank symbolises a changing landscape of social insecurity and welfare
conditionality. Attending to decision making within the food bank system, this article
argues that food banks, and their referral-system creates a bureaucratic ‘moral maz... Read More about The moral maze of food bank use.

The moral maze of foodbank use (2020)
Journal Article

The foodbank symbolises a changing landscape of social insecurity and welfare conditionality. Attending to decision making within the foodbank system, this article argues that foodbanks, and their referral-system creates a bureaucratic ‘moral maze’ i... Read More about The moral maze of foodbank use.

Jingle-all-the-way…to the food bank (2019)
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Beck, D. (2019). Jingle-all-the-way…to the food bank

Food poverty at record levels – a children’s book on food banks shows how normal it has become (2019)
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Beck, D. (2019). Food poverty at record levels – a children’s book on food banks shows how normal it has become

Neoliberal welfare reforms and emergency food aid in the UK (2019)
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Food banks are becoming institutionalised in the UK (2019)
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Beck, D. (2019). Food banks are becoming institutionalised in the UK

Why does the growth of food banks matter? (2016)
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Beck, D. (2016). Why does the growth of food banks matter?