January 1998

The recent rebellion against the Lbour government’s
decission to cut single parent benefit
and the growing disquiet about proposals to cut benefits
for the sick and disabled have
brought the welfare to work programme into sharp focus.
Mick Brooks looks at what is all
about, adn asks the important question: can it create real
jobs or is just another way of
massaging the statistics and reducing the social security
budget?