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S2 Ep23: The future of the welfare state
Season 2 · Episode 23

S2 Ep23: The future of the welfare state

VoxTalks Economics

June 7, 201917m 28s

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Show Notes

This week UN special rapporteur claimed the UK's social safety net has been "replaced with a harsh and uncaring ethos". Dame Minouche Shafik, director of the LSE, talks to Tim Phillips about whether our welfare states can survive in their current form, and what might replace them.
Image: Gerd Altmann