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Beveridge Report

1942 · 20th century

The Beveridge Report, officially Social Insurance and Allied Services, was a British government report written by the economist William Beveridge and published in December 1942. It proposed a comprehensive system of social insurance to attack the five giants of want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness, and became the blueprint for the post-war welfare state.

Beveridge Report
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Beveridge Report. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/beveridge-report
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