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In-work Poverty in the East Midlands was commissioned by emda to provide a detailed assessment of the issue of in-work poverty in the East Midlands and its implications for regional economic performance. The research, and this report, is based on four substantive elements: a systematic literature review on in-work poverty; an analysis of the scale…

Titmusss Social Division of Welfare (SDW) thesis is a vitally important but much neglected element of social policy analysis. This article seeks to explore the SDW, with a particular focus on fiscal welfare. Fiscal welfare has been described as forming a hidden welfare state, and while taxation is one of the main ways in which…

The authors’ concern is with the relationship between household income and property value, within the context of the debate about the fairness of council tax – the property-based system of local taxation in England. Although located within this particular debate, the fundamental issue of the relationship between household income and property value is of relevance…