1. Introduction
Part 1: Income inequality and poverty in Britain
2. Income inequality in the UK: extent and trends
3. Poverty, deprivation, and exclusion
4. Why has the income distribution changed?
5. Income dynamics and social mobility
Part 2: The impact of
policy
6. Social spending and the boundaries between public and private sectors
7. Tax and welfare
8. Distribution and redistribution
Part 3: Where do we go from here?
9. New Labour, welfare, and distribution
10. Constraints and pressures
11. Conclusions: The
spending pit or the tax pendulum?
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John Hills is Director of CASE and Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. He was Co-Director of the LSE's Welfare State Programme, and has worked as an economist and advisor in governental and non-governmental institutions in the UK and internationally.