This war is a revolutionary struggle being fought in large part for security. Security falls into two parts, international and domestic. Soldiers and diplomats must deal with the international phase, ...

British economist William Beveridge is particularly noted for the Beveridge Plan, a blueprint for social security that was adopted by the House of Commons in 1944. For his work, Beveridge was knighted ...

FRANK FIELD, an amiable and thoughtful minister at the Department of Social Security, is not the sort of man you would expect to become a popular hero. Nor is his job—to “think the unthinkable” about ...

Recent weeks have seen growing calls for a new “Beveridge plan” to rebuild Britain’s increasingly fragile society. Covid-19 is just the latest of a succession of devastating shocks—from the 2008 ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- William M. Beveridge, 93, of New Brighton, a retired educator, World War II veteran, accomplished musician and chorister and a stalwart family man, died Saturday in Richmond ...

Into bombed out wartime Britain dropped a government commissioned report that still reverberates today. Almost 80 years since Sir William Beveridge published his plans for a new system of "cradle to ...

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