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Family Income Supplement: Reintroducing Means-tested Wage Supplements

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In the previous chapter we focused upon how, from the ‘rediscovery of poverty’ in the mid-1960s and under pressure from the newly formed CPAG, Wilson’s Labour governments searched for a solution that was economically and politically agreeable to a party that we shall see in this chapter disagreed about the future of social security policy particularly whether it should involve more means-testing or not.

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Grover, C. (2016). Family Income Supplement: Reintroducing Means-tested Wage Supplements. In: Social Security and Wage Poverty. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137293978_6

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