
Want to help 1.6 million households in extreme debt? Raise their incomes
Austerity has fuelled a personal debt boom caused by low incomes and wages
Austerity has fuelled a personal debt boom caused by low incomes and wages
As well as responding to the shock of Brexit, our economic policy must begin to repair the country
The only era remotely comparable is the 1920s, covering the economic chaos at the end of the war and the disastrous return to the gold standard
As risks to the global economy increase, these cuts are all the more dangerous
In terms of headcount, 1.8 million people are unemployed, still higher than ahead of the crisis
There is still a long way to go before we return to the pre-crisis world
The higher the implied ‘tightness’ the lower the inflation reading
Many have argued that employment gains somehow compensate for earnings losses, but this is false
Cuts in the next parliament still to be far more severe than the last
Positive labour market figures are to be understood in the context of the post-crisis period as a whole and must not detract from the long-standing pressures on working people.