Poverty summary
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- Created on: 12-05-14 09:16
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- Poverty, Wealth and Welfare Summary
- Competing approaches
- Social democrate
- Traditional approach
- Left Wing approach
- Beveridge Report
- 5 Giant Evils
- Want
- Idleness
- Squalor
- Ignorance
- Disease
- 5 Giant Evils
- High taxation
- Expensive
- Universal
- No stigma
- High levels of affluence
- No admin costs
- Waste of benefits
- New Right
- Conservative
- Welfare to be privae
- Dependency Culture
- Murray
- Benefits should be means tested
- UK is a 'nanny state'
- Reduced state pensions
- Benefits costs less
- Admin costs
- Stigma attached
- Public Outcry
- Poverty increased
- Marxists
- Welfare state controls workers
- Poverty is built into capitalism
- Welfare state maintains capitalism
- Wants a radical change
- Communist countries still have poverty
- Rich would move elsewhere
- Third Way
- Influenced by Giddens
- Mixture of providers
- EMA
- Mixture of means testing and universalism
- Tax credit
- Child benefits
- Winter Fuel Payments
- Minimum wage
- Expensive
- Combined other party policies
- Poll tax riot 1990
- Social democrate
- Wealth and Income
- Unequal distribution
- Wealth
- What you own
- Income
- Flow of cash
- Wealth
- Change over time
- Slgiht decline in % owned by richest
- Slight growth in inequality
- Reasons for change
- Globalization
- Capitalism
- Entrepreneurs
- Government policy
- Lone - parent families
- Job insecurity
- Unequal distribution
- Defining and Measuring poverty
- Social exclusion
- Sees poverty in broadest sense
- Townsend
- Exclusion from leisure, education, health etc.
- Absolute Poverty
- Rowntree
- Based on minimun living standards
- Budget Standard Measure
- Relative Poverty
- Consensual - based on research
- Townsend
- Relative income measure
- HBAI
- Based on accepted standard of living
- Social exclusion
- Extent and causes of poverty
- Extent
- Total poverty in UK
- How to measure who is in poverty
- Household or economic status
- % of total poor
- Risk of being poor
- High risk groups
- Low paid
- Older people
- Unemployed
- Women
- Children
- Lone - Parent families
- Ethnic Minorities
- Disabled
- Extent
- Existence and Persitence of poverty
- Dependency explanations
- Murray
- Individual - personal faults
- Culture - culture of poverty
- Underclass- behavior of distinct social class
- Exclusion explanations
- Labour market - poorly paid work
- Marxist - outcome of capitalism
- Citizen - groups are stigmatized and excluded
- Dependency explanations
- Welfare Provision
- Welfare state
- Liberal
- Corporatist
- Social democratic
- Who should receive benefits?
- Universal
- Selective
- Who should provide benefits?
- State
- Mixed economy
- Who benefits?
- Redristribution from rich to poor
- Untitled
- Welfare state
- Competing approaches
- Social democrate
- Traditional approach
- Left Wing approach
- Beveridge Report
- 5 Giant Evils
- Want
- Idleness
- Squalor
- Ignorance
- Disease
- 5 Giant Evils
- High taxation
- Expensive
- Universal
- No stigma
- High levels of affluence
- No admin costs
- Waste of benefits
- Mixture of means testing and universalism
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