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Journal of Poverty and Social Justice favourites of 2021

We wanted to share some of our readers' favourite content that you might have missed. Please enjoy free access to some of our most read and highly cited articles, along with some of our editors’ top articles from recent issues.  

All articles below are free to access until 31 December 2021.

Most Read of 2020

Timing it right or timing it wrong: how should income-tested benefits deal with changes in circumstances?
Jane Millar and Peter Whiteford

Universal simplicity? The alleged simplicity of Universal Credit from administrative and claimant perspectives
Kate Summers and David Young

Including services in multidimensional poverty measurement for SDGs: modifications to the consensual approach
Alba Lanau, Joanna Mack, and Shailen Nandy

The moral maze of food bank use
David Beck and Hefin Gwilym

The do-gooders and scroungers: examining narratives of foodbank use in online local press coverage in the West Midlands, UK
Catherine Price et al.

Ones to Watch

Poverty in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and two-spirit (LGBTQ2S+) populations in Canada: an intersectional review of the literature
Hannah Kia et al.

Much ado about poverty: the role of a UN Special Rapporteur
Philip Alston, Bassam Khawaja and Rebecca Riddell

Discretion as blame avoidance: passing the buck to local authorities in 'welfare reform'
Jed Meers

The solo self-employed person and intrinsic financial security: does the promotion of self-employment institutionalise dualisation?
Mia Tammelin

'We've got a file on you': problematising families in poverty in four periods of austerity
Nicola Horsley, Val Gillies and Rosalind Edwards


Retheorising the relationship between electricity scarcity and social injustice: evidence from Zimbabwe
Ellen Fungisai Chipango

The influence of poverty on children's school experiences: pupils' perspectives
Lynn Naven et al.

Mind the gaps: Universal Credit and self-employment in the United Kingdom
Kevin Caraher and Enrico Reuter

Highly Cited

Children in jobless households across Europe: evidence on the association with medium- and long-term outcomes
Lindsey Macmillan et al.

British public employment service reform: activating and civilising the precariat? [Open Access]
Del Roy Fletcher

Is there evidence of households making a heat or eat trade off in the UK?
Carolyn Snell, Hannah Lambie-Mumford and Harriet Thomson

Extreme child poverty and the role of social policy in the United States
Zachary Parolin and David Brady

Editors' Choice 

Free to read until 31 January

Out of area housing by local authorities in England: displacement of vulnerable households in a neoliberal housing crisis
Steve Iafrati

Disrespect or dignity? Experiences of mandatory work participants in the Netherlands from the perspective of the right to work
Anja Eleveld

Medicalisation and psychologisation of poverty? An analysis of the scientific poverty discourse from 1956 to 2017
Stephan Krayter and Nadine Reibling

See also: Volume 27, Number 3, October 2019 our free sample issue.

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