A reckless housing boom will not guide the Tories to victory in 2015
The Help to Buy scheme reinforces the economy’s unsustainable dependence on private debt and spiralling house prices.
Green Politics
Tackling the productivity orthodoxy to boost pay
Millions of working people find themselves working harder for less. We need to rebalance our economy.
Jobs, opportunity and fairness – Derbyshire is showing the way on pay
Derby City Council is showing policymakers how to respond to the long-term unemployment crisis.
‘Abolish the state pension’: meet UKIP’s new economics spokesperson
The proposal has been dismissed as “incoherent” and “bizarre” by pensions experts.
Inflation: Less triumphalism please, the cost of living crisis is far from over
Today’s news on inflation is certainly welcome; but we’re not on the home straights yet.
Four ideas to solve the low pay crisis
An anonymous hotline to report employers for shady practices is just one way American activists are looking to tackle their own low pay crisis. Here are four ideas for solving our own.
The Work Programme: just 1 in 20 ESA claimants have found work through the scheme
The latest batch of Work Programme data were released today. New quarter; similar results: a programme doing acceptably for some, but for others not.
According to George Osborne, a UK manufacturing resurgence is still not on the cards
Yesterday’s Budget did little to convince Unite and our members employed in manufacturing that the government has set a course to re-balance the UK economy.
Budget 2014: Reaction across the nations
Across the nations, reaction to the chancellor’s budget yesterday has been lukewarm at best.
The government is failing miserably in the face of a growing UK housing crisis
While chancellor George Osborne’s Budget yesterday had a strong housing focus, which was welcomed in housing circles, the announcements failed miserably in the face of a growing UK housing crisis.