In "What's so new about social investment? Evidence from the history of the Danish welfare state" @ludvigsev and Troels Krarup find utilitarian logics similar to the modern social investment paradigm were central in the early formative period of the welfare state.
The article is part of the upcoming special issue on "Social Investment in Action" edited by @ditteandersen and Magnus Paulsen Hansen.
https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993251339011
So...the resources that should be allocated to fight #climateemergency, not to mention its widrawal impact on public services, the main core of the social contract between the State and the citizens, are to be plundered by the war industries and its minions, already fattening themselves on the misery in Ukraine and Palestine and the lesser mediatized wars that keep the business flourishing. #droledeguerre #warlords #deathindustries
#welfarestate #UE #otan
https://apnews.com/article/spain-nato-spending-increase-f9d105eb41d708acc78356599032b95a
In a letter to the 
#PrimeMinister, Foxcroft said she understood the need to address "the ever-increasing welfare bill" but said cuts to personal independence payments and #UniversalCredit should "not be part of the solution"
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Now what's the difference between foodstamps
and bailing out failed businesses ?
"We need to get billionaires off of welfare" [ ± 1min]
by thedavidpackmanshow [Jan 4, 2025]
"There is a way to set up your fiscal and welfare institutions that avoids both marriage penalties and marriage bonuses, though this approach is rarely mentioned in the US policy discourse. The solution has three pieces to it:
- Tax all income personally. In our current system, Medicare, Social Security, and Unemployment taxes are assessed on each individual’s personal income while the federal income tax is assessed on tax units that combine spousal income and then apply different rates based on whether an individual is filing singly, jointly, or as a single parent. We should change the federal income tax so that it is assessed on each individual’s personal income just like Medicare, Social Security, and Unemployment taxes are. This would make it so that tax situations do not change based on marriage.
- Provide welfare benefits personally. Welfare benefit eligibility should also be based on the circumstances of specific individuals not families. Unemployed people should get unemployment benefits regardless of how much money others in their family or household earn. The same for disabled people, elderly people, children, and so on. Some of our benefits already work like this, but others do not. By providing benefits to individuals based on their personal circumstances, you make it so that their benefit situations do not change based on marriage.
- Eliminate means tests. Welfare benefit eligibility and levels should be based on an individual’s current status (e.g., whether they are unemployed, disabled, on leave, a student) and, for income-smoothing benefits, their prior earnings. As with (2), this ensures that family composition does not end up affecting benefit eligibility.
Of course, this just describes the ideal form of the universal social democratic welfare state. This should come as no surprise."
https://jacobin.com/2025/01/universalism-welfare-states-marriage-medicaid
“NOW IT'S BEEN SAID: THE PURRAN TRUE FINNS AIM TO DISMANTLE THE WELFARE STATE.”
#politicsFI #finland #politics #naziJokeGovernment #austerity #welfareState #welfareCuts #rightWingPolitics #naziScum
Harry's Last Stand
Your birth right is a functioning Welfare State, because it was your ancestors: blood, sweat and tears that built it.
In 1948, it was still a long road to paradise for Britain’s working class despite the foundations of the the Welfare State being laid with the creation that year of the NHS.
'In the coming days, there will be endless commentators ready to declare that the coronation makes them “proud to be British”, while anyone who criticises any aspect of it will be accused of “hating their country”.
I have never quite understood the mindset that feels more pride in producing Prince Andrew than the welfare state'...
Frances Ryan is absolutely right; lets celebrate the #welfarestate not a bunch of rich parasites
#KingCharles #Coronation
#wasteofmoney
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/28/billionaire-king-crowned-charity-work-funding-public-services
@DemocracyMattersALot
It's time #RedStates like Kentucky lived up to their #Republican ethos and pull themselves up by their bootstraps instead of sucking off the #welfare teat of the #BlueStates.
Time for re-introduction?
I'm Nadav Perez-Vaisvidovsky, senior lecturer at the faculty of #socialwork, #ashkelon academic college #aac, currently visiting at #UCL #TCRU
My research interests are at the intersections of #Fatherhood and the #welfarestate - specifically I'm currently engaged in projects in two fields: #ParentalLeave for #fathers and the interaction of fathers with the #welfare and #childprotection systems. Mostly #qualitative methods but also #mixedmethods
