Tag: Benefits

• Tom’s Story

  I’ll call him Tom. Tom is eighteen years old and he lives in a typical English village.   That is, a small community of chocolate-box cottages with a shop and a pub surrounding a placid village pond.   The outer perimeter of this idyll was blessed in 1948 with the addition of a small clutch of social…

  frederick anderson

  March 11, 2014

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  Benefits, book, crime, education, Frederick Anderson, misfit, prospects, social housing, society, village

• Monday Morning Rant – From a Conversation with Joe

  Why is Joe important to me?  Maybe because he’s one of the legions of people who live alone, who are not easily employable, and who, for one reason or another, rely upon the State to support them. Joe is not ‘lazy’.  With his history of mental illness, I doubt he has a real concept of…

  frederick anderson

  May 13, 2013

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  Benefits, finance, housing, policy, poverty