The Beveridge Report and the "five giants"

December 1942

William Beveridge presents the British government with a plan to defeat five giants: Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness (unemployment). The text becomes the foundation of the British welfare state and its National Health Service.

Source: Wikipedia, Beveridge Report

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