{"id":1281,"date":"2013-03-25T21:53:55","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T21:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2019-05-21T14:15:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T13:15:30","slug":"the-paradox-of-declining-welfare-spend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2013\/03\/25\/the-paradox-of-declining-welfare-spend\/","title":{"rendered":"The Paradox of Declining Welfare Spend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new article by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr\/staff\/academic\/taylorgooby.html\" title=\"Professor Peter Taylor-Gooby\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Peter Taylor-Gooby<\/a> examines the paradox of declining support for welfare spending at a time of rapidly growing inequality and rising poverty. <\/p>\n<p>High unemployment and the much greater insecurity of many people&#8217;s lives as the economy stagnates render the issue more perplexing. The article presents new data to show how policies that reduce poverty can be made more acceptable to a public worried about subsidies for &#8216;workshy&#8217; claimants by focusing on wage levels and on the costs of a normal family life. For many people at the bottom, wages are too low to rent adequate housing or pay fuel bills and child care costs.  Professor Taylor-Gooby proposes that increasing the minimum wage to living wage levels, controlling rents and providing good quality, low cost child care would do a great deal in reducing the numbers in poverty.<\/p>\n<p>The article &#8216;Why Do People Stigmatise the Poor at a Time of Rapidly Increasing Inequality, and What Can Be Done About It?&#8217; is published in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/poqu.2013.84.issue-1\/issuetoc\" title=\"Political Quarterly\" target=\"_blank\">Political Quarterly<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new article by Professor Peter Taylor-Gooby examines the paradox of declining support for welfare spending at a time of rapidly growing inequality and rising &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2013\/03\/25\/the-paradox-of-declining-welfare-spend\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4691,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions\/4691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}