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Professor of Social Policy, LSE. Associate Director, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE)
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Aaron Reeves
about 1 month ago
About a year ago, I remember talking with
@kittyjstewart.bsky.social
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about the child poverty strategy. Back then, I was more optimistic that parental employment could play a role in reducing child poverty. Over the coming months they convinced me I was wrong.
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So wonderful to see the pernicious two-child limit lifted yesterday. And so depressing to hear Nick Robinson this morning recycling standard nonsense that working families are being taxed more to pay people who don’t work. How can we have proper debate when even BBC propagates these myths?
#bbctoday
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Aaron Reeves
about 2 months ago
New analysis with
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: If we are serious about trying to reduce child poverty we cannot rely on employment alone. We need serious investment in social security.
largerfamilies.study/publications...
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Benefit changes and larger families
We are a group of university-based researchers investigating how families with more than two children are coping with the benefit cap or the two-child limit.
https://largerfamilies.study/publications/employment-child-poverty
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European University Institute
2 months ago
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Dan Paskins
3 months ago
Hearing Jonny speak was one of my highlights of Labour Party conference - do read his piece
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labourlist.org/2025/09/chil...
Great piece by Jonny Roberts of
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But looks like the battle to end the pernicious two child limit goes on
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'Bringing emotion and reality to the debate on child poverty.': one conference attendee's experience - LabourList
Jonny Roberts has come to conference to share his experience of being a single dad - and call for Labour to take bold action on child poverty.
https://labourlist.org/2025/09/child-poverty-lived-experience/
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And the 30 hours is not even for all children! The most disadvantaged miss out
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Helen Barnard
3 months ago
Has the PM finished talking about child poverty? Really? Right to celebrate the steps so far - extending free school meals, childcare investment etc. But he will be a Prime Minister presiding over rising child poverty this Parliament unless he steps up and lifts the cruel 2 child limit.
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Devastating study showing the urgency of acting on child poverty today. What happens in childhood matters and children don’t get another chance at it
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Poorer children more likely to age faster than affluent counterparts, study finds
Biological disadvantages may be shaped in first decade of a child’s life depending on family affluence
https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2025/jun/05/poorer-children-more-likely-age-faster-affluent-counterparts-study?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Tom Pollard
10 months ago
This, from a DWP press release yesterday (
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), is outrageous In two short paragraphs it peddles multiple falsehoods about the current system that will be used to justify upcoming cuts & changes Here's what MPs & journalists should be challenging... 🧵
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Prof Ruth Patrick
10 months ago
Exciting opportunity to join the
@changingrealities.bsky.social
team at a time when the work we do together has never mattered more. Please do share widely
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
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Jobs - The University of York
https://jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/research-associate-577167.html
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Nate Holdren
about 1 year ago
hey bluesky, in case anyone's interested, I wrote this for my students about why I don't want them to use anything AI in my classes. It interrupts the course calendar part of the syllabus, coming immediately after the first day there's a writing assignment assigned.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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A note on AI usage
A note on AI usage I genuinely want you to succeed in this class. One of my very favorite things about my job as a professor is when students are succeeding and I feel like I helped. I want you to suc...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WtgHy3Mz5y9LuUhkLcIW9eWN_abGfUIoy8XJxgCW9I8/edit?usp=sharing
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Public transport in Luxembourg is… free. Amazing.
about 1 year ago
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Brilliant idea to increase productivity: make the wifi work at stations and on trains. OR just formally scrap it all so we don’t even try
about 1 year ago
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This is absolutely huge from the Scottish Parliament. Combined with the Scottish Child Payment it means a family with 3 children on Universal Credit will be *£7k* per year better off than if they lived in England. And we know that will make a massive difference
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politic...
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John Swinney to lift two child benefit cap in Budget announcement
The Scottish Government will move to scrap a policy critics say pushes families into poverty.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/john-swinney-lift-two-child-34247313
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Miles Rinaldi
about 1 year ago
Good LSE blog by
@emmatominey.bsky.social
. Summary evidence that the welfare system is causing harm to the mental health of claimants it is designed to help. Reforms need to improve the mental health of those relying on the welfare system as a safety net.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
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We can’t tackle the mental health crisis without reforming social security
With an unprecedented number of people out of work due to poor mental health, the Labour Government is facing an uphill battle to boost growth and productivity. But the Government’s welfare s…
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/we-cant-tackle-the-mental-health-crisis-without-reforming-social-security/
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Kerris Cooper
about 1 year ago
Why do we have free meals for early primary children but not for our pre-school children? We know nutrition in early years is vital for healthy development and we know under-fives face higher risk of food poverty - my piece in
@schoolsweek.bsky.social
schoolsweek.co.uk/early-years-...
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The Knowledge: Early years food poverty and how to address it
A new EPI report calls on government to close the gap between meal provision in schools and in the early years
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/early-years-nutrition-is-vital-in-addressing-educational-inequalities/
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Lovely department, brilliant students, fantastic job. Feel free to get in touch if you want to discuss
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKO534/a...
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Assistant Professor in International Social and Public Policy at London School of Economics and Political Science
An academic position as a Assistant Professor in International Social and Public Policy is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunit...
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKO534/assistant-professor-in-international-social-and-public-policy?utm_campaign=google_jobs_apply&utm_source=google_jobs_apply&utm_medium=organic
about 1 year ago
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