How Britain's broken benefits system created a 'lost generation' who no longer need to work
It is more than a century since the first jobless benefits were paid in Britain, when David Lloyd George’s Liberal government introduced unemployment insurance through the National Insurance Act of 1911. The then chancellor’s policy ensured around 2.5 million – mainly manual – workers were…
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