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I've been hearing two claims, both false: that Europe's woes reflect the failure of welfare states in general, and that Europe's crisis makes the case for immediate fiscal austerity in the United States.
But the government's inaction on social care isn't surprising in the context of its similar inaction on the mental health crisis, the cruelty and failure of welfare reforms, and the appalling waste demonstrated in evidence-free policies like the troubled families programme.
After the perceived failure of welfare state capitalism in one country, political elites, with some prodding from big business, responded to the stagflation crisis of the late 1970s with successive waves of deregulation, privatisation and liberalisation which disempowered the organised working class.
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The failures of welfare reform – still viewed as a great success by some – are increasingly well known, even if public discussion of these flaws is muted.
"Cathy was a very, very important and positive statement about the failure of the welfare state.
That failure of the welfare state is compounded by fundamental changes to the labour market which are making the world of work increasingly precarious for many.
On the right, it's an item of faith that the crisis in Europe represents a failure of the welfare state.
De Schutter caused controversy in Canada last year after he published an official UN report critical of what he said was the failure of the welfare system to meet the basic food needs of a growing number of its poorest citizens.
The failure of child welfare officials to bar Ms. Leekin from the system after that 1980 episode is one of the most striking revelations in new court reports filed in a Brooklyn lawsuit.
The failure of corporate welfare programs is obvious.
But this point -- food banks are not a failure of government welfare, they're a triumph of private generosity -- is undermined by how food banks actually work.
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