Pay of FTSE 100 bosses grows 20 times faster than average worker
The pay of FTSE 100 directors grew by 14 per cent in the last year – 20 times faster than that of the average worker.
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Increasing the personal tax allowance: anything but progressive
Millions of the poorest households gain nothing from increases in the personal tax allowance.
UK still has joint highest inflation in EU
Inflation in Britain is the joint highest in the EU, according to a relase out today from the statistics office of the European Union.
Sorry Guido, but the Tories really are presiding over a cost of living crisis
Sorry Guido, but there really is a cost of living crisis and it’s getting worse under a Tory government.
To tackle in-work poverty, start with second earners
It will be difficult to reduce levels of child poverty in the UK without a concerted effort to increase the employment rate of workless partners.
Today’s good employment news only deserves one-and-a-half cheers
There are more jobs, but the pay is lower, your chances of being underemployed are higher, your risk of losing your job is higher, and if you do become unemployed your chances of getting a job are lower.
Unemployment down 48,000 to 2.47 million
Unemployment decreased by 48,000 between July 2013 and September 2013 to 2.47 million, with the unemployment rate now at 7.6 per cent, today’s labour market statistics reveal.
The coalition lacks any plan to get Britain manufacturing again
Unite has set out ten recommendations for rebalancing the economy and developing an effective manufacturing strategy.
We used to fear inflation: deflation is a much bigger threat
The threat from deflation has been a regular theme for discussion amongst the economists linked to the Green New Deal group over the last few years and rightly so.
Could 2015 be the living wage election?
How Britain fares internationally when it comes to low wages.