Inequality & poverty

  • 8 Sep 14
    Savage public spending cuts and welfare restrictions risk the creation of a ‘Downton Abbey-style’ society in which the living standards of the majority are sacrificed to preserve the privileges of...
  • 5 Sep 14
    Sir Bob Kerslake has today launched the first stage of his inquiry into the future of Birmingham City Council that will examine the financial sustainability of the UK’s largest local authority and...
  • 30 Jul 14
    Families with disabled people have been most affected by government’s spending cuts and tax and benefits changes since 2010, an analysis carried out for the Equality and Human Rights Commission has...
  • 16 Apr 14
    The government’s welfare reforms are driving a three-fold increase in the number of people who require emergency food aid, a charity has warned.
  • 4 Jun 04
    From time to time, evidence of invisible people and invisible jobs appear on the government’s radar screen: when the Census didn’t make sense, when cockle- pickers died in Morecambe Bay....

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