Throughout 2019, we'll be discussing the big issues the British economy is going to face over the next fifty years. Debates about welfare policy are invariably controversial, going right to the heart of what kind of society we want to be.
Focusing on working-age social security, Robert Joyce (a Deputy Director at the IFS) kicked off our first IFS at 50 event by setting out the trade-offs that make this such an important and difficult area, how and why our approach has changed so radically over time, and how evidence can help us design policy better. Watch Robert from 04:36.
He was joined by Sir John Hills (LSE and former IFS researcher), Lord Freud (author of the 2007 Freud Report on the welfare-to-work system) and Liz Sayce (member of the Social Security Advisory Committee and former Chief Executive of Disability Rights UK) to discuss how we should tackle the big challenges we face going forwards. The discussion starts at 28:46.
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