Government is quietly shifting costs of public services on to individuals. Where government can get people to pay directly for…
Read moreOur CEO, Philippa Stroud established the Social Metrics Commission with the sole aim of developing new measures of poverty for…
Read moreThe social care system is in need of reform, at present people are not protected from the catastrophic costs that…
Read moreThe long implementation of Universal Credit (UC) has been far from smooth and we’ve become all too used to negative…
Read moreThe National Minimum/Living Wage system has become too complicated, making unintentional non-compliance a problem, and is in danger of becoming…
Read moreIn 1974, the Labour government established a Royal Commission on the Distribution of Income and Wealth, which was known as…
Read moreDemos is excited to announce the launch of a new report from academic Ben Baumberg Geiger and Demos think tank, which…
Read moreThis research paper looks at what people put in and take out from the welfare state over their lifetime, updating…
Read moreThe idea of a universal basic income (UBI) is that the state should give to all citizens (or residents) a…
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