Our sprawling welfare state is blind to the unique challenges each state faces, and it pushes families into traps of dependency instead of encouraging localized solutions to poverty that differs ...

LSE, and in particular the Social Policy and Sociology departments, played a clear role in the development of the welfare state during the twentieth century. In particular the work of several ...

Black areas show where the poorest people lived and orange shows where the wealthier people lived In the 19th century ... The beginnings of the modern welfare state can be traced back to this ...

and the mass immigration to the New World of the early 20th century was especially good, but that radically open borders are incompatible with large contemporary welfare states. This may strike ...