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Look Left – EU budget rows, energy policy confusion, and America goes to the polls
Shamik Das looks back at the week’s politics, including our progressive, regressive and evidence of the week.
While the super-rich get a tax cut, disabled people are the hardest hit by Tory welfare cuts
Andrew Kaye, co-author of the Hardest Hit coalition’s new report, “The Tipping Point” writes about how the cuts are hitting disabled people the most.
Lords a tweeting and amending: Labour in the Lords is on the map
Jos Bell looks at Labour's crusading peers in the House of Lords, fighting harder for a fairer future and holding the coalition to account.
100,000 families will lose out in coalition’s childcare shake-up
The planned shake up of child benefit system will affect families and their incomes, new research by The Children's society shows. Is it time for a re-think?
Have we passed the high watermark of state support for children?
Donald Hirsch, director of the Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP), writes about the CPAG/JRF report, “The Cost of a Child in the 21st Century”.
Resolution Foundation: Tax and benefit system still not doing enough to make work pay
A new Resolution Foundation report today highlights how the present system of redistribution through taxation and welfare is inefficient and could be reformed.