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Lambeth Council’s eviction of mother Clavia Chambers shows the brutality of our housing system

Lambeth Housing Activists
21 August, 2017

Thousands are being made homeless by a broken housing system say Lambeth Housing Activists who have been assisting the now homeless mother of two.

Teaching assistants are earning the minimum wage. We need to talk about poverty pay

Jayne Kirkham
18 August, 2017

Academies and schools are making tortuous calculations in order to get away with paying the bare minimum – in a county where rents and house prices are astronomical.

The housing crisis is deepening – and the Tories have no solution

Diane Abbott
4 April, 2017

Affordable housebuilding has fallen to the lowest level in 24 years

Benefits claimants with health conditions have just been hit by a £1,400 annual cut

Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin
3 April, 2017

Poor households are getting slammed as Osborne-era cuts come into effect this week

Poor families’ incomes are about to get slammed – but it’s nothing to do with NICs

Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin
9 March, 2017

The impact of scheduled benefit changes will dwarf national insurance reform

Budget 2017 liveblog: Responses to Philip Hammond’s statement

8 March, 2017

The Chancellor is delivering his first Spring Budget

IFS projects families £5,000 worse off and child poverty up a third. Is this Theresa May’s ‘strong economy’?

Adam Barnett
2 March, 2017

IFS report on a grim future shames the Tories’ economic record

Liveblog: Progressive responses to the Autumn Statement

Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin
23 November, 2016

Live analysis of Philip Hammond’s statement from progressive parties, NGOs, trade unions and think tanks

Want to really help the ‘Jams’? Time for a Robin Hood Tax

David Hillman
23 November, 2016

It’s working in Germany and France – why not here?

Five ways the Autumn Statement could cut inequality and help ‘the Jams’

Wanda Wyporska
22 November, 2016

The Equality Trust says ditch tax cuts and build houses

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