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An academic book for everyone... every bit as revealing as an episode of The Wire. Danny Dorling, Times Higher Education This book shows how we all receive welfare services and benefits throughout our lives, rich as well as poor. Essential reading for policy-makers, politicians and citizens. Peter Taylor-Gooby, University of Kent. A lively and provocative book that will overturn your assumptions about the welfare state. A great read, and a 'must read' for policy-makers and the public alike. Jane Waldfogel, Columbia University School of Social Work, New York. This hugely important book shows how populist understandings of the welfare state are wrong. Its message needs to reach the voting public before it is too late David Blanchflower, Dartmouth College (New Hampshire) and University of Stirling, and formerly of the Monetary Policy Committee, Bank of England. Another authoritative and myth-busting book from John Hills. Julian Le Grand, LSE. Hills passionately and rigorously shows how very different families rely on the intergenerational contract we call the welfare state. Accessible and learned, it is a myth buster. Howard Glennerster, LSE. This is a beautifully researched academic howl of rage against the current myth of 'welfare'. Anyone who wants to understand the state of welfare - and of the welfare state - in the second decade of the 21st century really needs to read this book. Nicholas Timmins, Institute for Government and King's Fund. This book is an extremely important contribution to central debates about the UK's welfare state, deploying a wealth of statistical and research evidence in a highly accessible fashion to fundamentally challenge widely held perceptions about who benefits and who pays. Brian Nolan, University of Oxford. Hills shows that social policy is about stabilising income over the life course, compensating for the vagaries of markets and life circumstances, enhancing opportunity for disadvantaged children and facilitating asset accumulation. Good Times, Bad Times makes it clear that there is considerable scope for improvement in public social programmes. For those wishing to understand one of our most important and politically divisive institutions, this book is required reading. Lane Kenworthy, University of California, San Diego.

This book shows how we all receive welfare services and benefits throughout our lives, rich as well as poor. Essential reading for policy-makers, politicians and citizens. Peter Taylor-Gooby, University of Kent. A lively and provocative book that will overturn your assumptions about the welfare state. A great read, and a 'must read' for policy-makers and the public alike. Jane Waldfogel, Columbia University School of Social Work, New York. This hugely important book shows how populist understandings of the welfare state are wrong. Its message needs to reach the voting public before it is too late David Blanchflower, Dartmouth College (New Hampshire) and University of Stirling, and formerly of the Monetary Policy Committee, Bank of England. Another authoritative and myth-busting book from John Hills. Julian Le Grand, LSE. Hills passionately and rigorously shows how very different families rely on the intergenerational contract we call the welfare state. Accessible and learned, it is a myth buster. Howard Glennerster, LSE. This is a beautifully researched academic howl of rage against the current myth of 'welfare'. Anyone who wants to understand the state of welfare - and of the welfare state - in the second decade of the 21st century really needs to read this book. Nicholas Timmins, Institute for Government and King's Fund. This book is an extremely important contribution to central debates about the UK's welfare state, deploying a wealth of statistical and research evidence in a highly accessible fashion to fundamentally challenge widely held perceptions about who benefits and who pays. Brian Nolan, University of Oxford. Hills shows that social policy is about stabilising income over the life course, compensating for the vagaries of markets and life circumstances, enhancing opportunity for disadvantaged children and facilitating asset accumulation. Good Times, Bad Times makes it clear that there is considerable scope for improvement in public social programmes. For those wishing to understand one of our most important and politically divisive institutions, this book is required reading. Lane Kenworthy, University of California, San Diego.

An academic book for everyone... every bit as revealing as an episode of The Wire. Danny Dorling, Times Higher Education This book shows how we all receive welfare services and benefits throughout our lives, rich as well as poor. Essential reading for policy-makers, politicians and citizens. Peter Taylor-Gooby, University of Kent. A lively and provocative book that will overturn your assumptions about the welfare state. A great read, and a 'must read' for policy-makers and the public alike. Jane Waldfogel, Columbia University School of Social Work, New York. This hugely important book shows how populist understandings of the welfare state are wrong. Its message needs to reach the voting public before it is too late David Blanchflower, Dartmouth College (New Hampshire) and University of Stirling, and formerly of the Monetary Policy Committee, Bank of England. Another authoritative and myth-busting book from John Hills. Julian Le Grand, LSE. Hills passionately and rigorously shows how very different families rely on the intergenerational contract we call the welfare state. Accessible and learned, it is a myth buster. Howard Glennerster, LSE. This is a beautifully researched academic howl of rage against the current myth of 'welfare'. Anyone who wants to understand the state of welfare - and of the welfare state - in the second decade of the 21st century really needs to read this book. Nicholas Timmins, Institute for Government and King's Fund. This book is an extremely important contribution to central debates about the UK's welfare state, deploying a wealth of statistical and research evidence in a highly accessible fashion to fundamentally challenge widely held perceptions about who benefits and who pays. Brian Nolan, University of Oxford. Hills shows that social policy is about stabilising income over the life course, compensating for the vagaries of markets and life circumstances, enhancing opportunity for disadvantaged children and facilitating asset accumulation. Good Times, Bad Times makes it clear that there is considerable scope for improvement in public social programmes. For those wishing to understand one of our most important and politically divisive institutions, this book is required reading. Lane Kenworthy, University of California, San Diego. Should be compulsory reading not just for politicians and journalists, but for us all Sheila Gilmore MP, Progress

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John Hills is Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics. He has written extensively on inequality, public policy and the welfare state. He was a member of the Pensions Commission and Chair of the National Equality Panel for the Labour government and led a review of the measurement of fuel poverty for the Coalition government. He was knighted in 2013 for services to the development of social policy.

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