The distributional consequences of the 2010 Spending Review

Horton, Tim; Reed, Howard

doi:10.1332/175982711x559163

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“…Whilst the UK coalition Government contested that those with the ‘broadest shoulders’ would bear the burden of these cuts, empirical analysis suggests otherwise (Mulholland and Watt ). As Horton and Reed (: 23) argue, ‘the poorest 10 percent of households are losing around 15 times as much from spending cuts as the richest 1 percent of households’. Some of the most vulnerable groups have been impacted.…”

Section: Poverty In Austere Times: the Uk Contextmentioning

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Endless Pressure: Life on a Low Income in Austere Times

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General rightsThis document is made available in accordance with publisher policies. Please cite only the published version using the reference above. AbstractMuch has been written that details the decline in living standards following the 'credit crunch' in the UK. It remains that we understand to a lesser degree the lived reality of poverty through the Great Recession and into the era of austerity. This article draws on testimonies of 62 participants from low income households conducted in three different areas of the UK during 2012-13 to document the pressures that this period brought to bear on these households. According to these testimonies, the experience of poverty intensified in key respects: first, participants reported feeling, more than ever before, that they were 'existing, rather than living' due to the meagre budgets they were forced to live on; second, the precarious nature of work and social security contributed to a sense of insecurity that was all pervasive in our participants' lives; third, due to the pejorative political rhetoric and media coverage of poverty, our participants felt that their lives were placed under increased scrutiny which deleteriously impacted their wider relationships and sense of belonging. Our analysis demonstrates the profound consequences for those living on low incomes of the continued shift to residual forms of state welfare and the increased reliance on the 'Big Society' as a means to deal with the pressures identified in this article.

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“…This was the approach taken by Horton and Reed (2011) in their analysis of the distributional impact of the October 2010 Spending Review. gender in the sphere of finance in responses to the crisis Just as women were in a small minority among the private sector financial decision makers whose actions led to the financial crisis in 2008, they were also in a small minority among the key decision makers in public sector institutions responding to the crisis.…”

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“…5 It should be noted that if we were to include the other £32 billion of spending cuts (which cannot be allocated based on household data on use of public services) as 'flat rate' cuts per household, the impact of the spending cuts would be even more regressive as a proportion of income than is shown in this section. This was the approach taken by Horton and Reed (2011) in their analysis of the distributional impact of the October 2010 Spending Review.…”

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Transcending the Impact of the Financial Crisis in the United Kingdom: Towards Plan F—a Feminist Economic Strategy

Pearson¹,

Elson²

2015

Feminist Review

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This paper sets out a framework for understanding the impacts of the financial crisis and its aftermath that is based on the idea of three interacting spheres: finance, production and reproduction. All of these spheres are gendered and globalised. The gendered impact of the current crisis is discussed in terms of the impact on unemployment, employment protection and security, public sector services, social security benefits, pensions, and the real value of wages and living standards. Drawing on the analysis of the UK Women's Budget Group, the paper demonstrates that the biggest falls in disposable income as the result of austerity policies by the Conservative-led government since 2010 have been borne by the most vulnerable women-lone mothers, single women pensioners and single women without children. Working-age couples without children have been least affected. The paper then goes on to discuss what an alternative economic strategy, based on feminist political economy, might look like. It utilises the notion of the 'reproductive bargain', first developed to understand the transition in Cuba in the 1990s.It sets out a possible feminist economic strategy that insists on the incorporation of reproductive and care work into the analysis of alternative economic policies and links employment, wages and social security payments to public provisioning of transgenerational reproductive services. It suggests feasible strategies to finance the proposed Plan F-a feminist economic strategy.

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“…The well-being of those living on reduced incomes can be negatively affected by the loss of income and increased costs during times of economic crisis. At the same time poorer households are also more adversely affected by spending cuts to social care and social housing budgets (Horton and Reed, 2011). This paper has suggested that economic well-being is an essential component of an individual's needs (DH, 2010), and therefore should to be taken into consideration during social work assessment processes.…”

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Economic Well-being and Ageing: The Need for Financial Education for Social Workers

Fenge¹

2012

Social Work Education

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The distributional consequences of the 2010 Spending Review

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Endless Pressure: Life on a Low Income in Austere Times

Endless Pressure: Life on a Low Income in Austere Times

Transcending the Impact of the Financial Crisis in the United Kingdom: Towards Plan F—a Feminist Economic Strategy

Economic Well-being and Ageing: The Need for Financial Education for Social Workers

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