What’s in a name? A hopeless factual and logical muddle. Call something a ‘benefit’ and who is it for? The … Continue reading “The end of family policy?”

Shadow Chancellor George Osborne leads the chorus of tut-tutting at means-tested child tax credits going to “better-off” families and seems … Continue reading “Means testing means more welfare dependency”

Shadow Chancellor George Osborne leads the chorus of tut-tutting at means-tested child tax credits going to “better-off” families and seems … Continue reading “Means testing means more welfare dependency”

It has become fashionable for politicians to extol the virtues of the family. Yet, in this economic analysis of family … Continue reading “The War Between the State and the Family”