There is a growing recognition in the fields of public health and medicine that social
determinants of health (SDOH) play a key role in driving health inequities and disparities …

In recent decades, the use of conditionality backed by benefit sanctions for those claiming
unemployment and related benefits has become widespread in the social security systems …

Welfare sanctions are financial penalties applied to individuals who fail to comply with
welfare program rules. Their widespread use reflects a turn toward disciplinary approaches …

Since 2009, the UK has witnessed marked increases in the rate of sanctions applied to
unemployment insurance claimants, as part of a wider agenda of austerity and welfare …

This book explores the role of the welfare state in the overall wealth and wellbeing of nations
and in particular looks at the American welfare state in comparison with other developed …

In 1999, one in four British children lived in poverty—the third highest child poverty rate
among industrialized countries. Five years later, the child poverty rate in Britain had fallen by …

Economic downturns lead to lost income and increased poverty. Although high
unemployment almost certainly also increases material hardship and government transfers …

One of welfare reform's most significant consequences is the devolution of policy-making
authority from the federal government and states to local governments and frontline workers …

Despite decades of research, little is known about the contours of material hardship and how
the social processes underlying specific domains of hardship are similar and different. We …

Child behavior problems are associated with long-term detrimental effects. A large body of
literature looks at the association between income and child behavior but few studies …