Blogs Posts on "Welfare Reform"

DISABILITY ALLOWANCE - DON’T BELIEVE BURNHAM ‘S SPIN by Socialist Unity on Nov 4, 2009More Government Duplicity Over Disability Living Allowance by Tony Greenstein In reaction to the nearly 20,000 people who have signed the 10 Downing Street petition http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/AttendanceA/?showall=1   against cutting DLA and A...

SAVE DLA AND ALL DISABILITY BENEFITS by Socialist Unity on Oct 23, 2009by Tony Greenstein Having already abolished Incapacity Benefit, New Labour has now made it clear that it wants to scrap ALL disability benefits. On July 14th New Labour published a Green Paper, Shaping the Future of Care. Reading through the spin, th...

Workfare: piloted in a town near you from 2010 by Socialist Unity on Aug 6, 2009Workfare, euphemistically known as ‘Work for Your Benefit’ schemes, is going to be piloted in a town near you from 2010. The pilots will take place in Greater Manchester, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Suffolk and will run for two years from October...

Purnell’s departure an opportunity for real change by Socialist Unity on Jun 5, 2009Press release from  PCS  The departure of James Purnell from the Department for Work and Pensions should also spell the end of the government’s welfare reform agenda, the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) says. Plans to privatise mor...

Standing Strong for Welfare Reform by Crystal Clear Conservative on Feb 20, 2009In the Virginia General Assembly, there has been debate about cutting back on the success of the welfare reform in the Commonwealth. H.B. 1714, which was being debated in the Senate. Since the House is not reconsidering this bill, Senator Mark Obe...

Obama’s Stimulus Will Undo Most of the Welfare Reforms of the Last 20 Years by America's Watchtower on Feb 15, 2009Cross posted on Grizzly Groundswell   Now that the stimulus bill has passed and it is too late to do anything about it we are starting to get stories like this one that claim that President Obama’s stimulus plan is going to reverse the welfar.

Politcal Blogs Make Me Laugh by Spicybugz World on Feb 11, 2009I was surfing blogs for a little bit. I had laid the little ones down to take a nap scream their heads off, and decided it would be a good time to go EC Dropping. While surfing and dropping, ( I want you all to know, that for the majority of you, I d...