New ONS figures show Tories ‘legacy of ill health’, says union body
Labour market stats reveal historically high levels of people off work due to long-term sickness
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Homelessness charity issues chilling warning over council funding cuts
A vital charity that helps vulnerable people has become vulnerable itself.
This is how we can start to curb fat-cattery and low pay
Inequitable distribution of income has severe consequences.
Tory MP predicts ‘obliteration’ for his party at the general election after leaving country in ‘worse state since 2010’
Despite Rishi Sunak’s attempts to rally his troops behind his plan and belief that there is a narrow path to victory, one Tory backbencher has candidly admitted that the Tories face ‘obliteration’ at the next general election. Danny Kruger, thetest
Here’s how the government is doing everything it can to attack workers and trade unions
‘It is all one-way traffic, designed to boost corporate profits, weaken worker rights and penalise trade unions’
We must make the moral and pragmatic case for ending child poverty
Child poverty doesn’t just mean having less opportunities and less access to goods and services growing up. Its effects are long term and in many cases last a lifetime.
Shocking chart shames Britain on child poverty record
he report compiled by UNICEF compared relative income poverty rates, which means the proportion of people who fall below a threshold relative to the income of the average person in the population.
Prem Sikka: How the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill is the government’s latest erosion of hard-won rights
‘The Bill only targets the less well-off. There is no equivalent surveillance of legislators who accept payments to advance the interests of their corporate paymasters.’
Prem Sikka: Here’s why the autumn statement does nothing to help ordinary working people
‘The chancellor delivered a continuation of austerity, public spending cuts and tax hikes.’
Trussell Trust urges government to use Autumn Statement to protect low income households, as food banks are at ‘breaking point’
‘We are calling on the government to urgently confirm in the Autumn Statement that benefits will rise in line with inflation next April, and to reduce the burden of debt deductions which drive unacceptable levels of hardship.”