Why austerity doesn’t work
The government might be facing ‘difficult decisions’, but they’re not nearly as intimidating as those that many households are experiencing daily – like being forced to choose between heating and eating.
The government might be facing ‘difficult decisions’, but they’re not nearly as intimidating as those that many households are experiencing daily – like being forced to choose between heating and eating.
‘We can have either democracy and public accountability or rampant corporate power concentrated in the hands of a few business executives, but not both.’
‘Not aligning social benefits or minimum wages with increased costs of living is a retrogressive measure so the government would be violating its international human rights obligations.’
‘The last twelve years of cuts in public spending, have failed to deliver economic growth, prosperity, or resilience to household budgets.’
With austerity potentially on the horizon, arts and culture organisations must not be the victims of Liz Truss’s failed economic experiment and a misguided austerity response to it.
Left Foot Forward spoke to the PCS general secretary at the 2022 TUC Congress
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‘Mortality rates across the UK stopped improving in the early 2010s, largely attributable to UK Government’s ‘austerity’ policies.’
Spending per pupil in 2024-25 is expected to be 3% lower than in 2010, after costs for schools are taken into account.
The annual rate of inflation has hit 9%. Average wages during the first three months of the year increased by just 4.2%.