austerity
Action is needed to ensure our arts and cultural organisations do not become the victims of austerity
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.
Mark Serwotka: Trade union movement must be ‘far more aggressive’ in resisting austerity
Left Foot Forward spoke to the PCS general secretary at the 2022 TUC Congress
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More than 330,000 excess deaths in Great Britain linked to austerity, study finds
'Mortality rates across the UK stopped improving in the early 2010s, largely attributable to UK Government’s ‘austerity’ policies.'
Both Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss are planning further austerity for schools
Spending per pupil in 2024-25 is expected to be 3% lower than in 2010, after costs for schools are taken into account.
Prof Prem Sikka: Britain’s cost of living crisis is mostly manufactured by government policies
The annual rate of inflation has hit 9%. Average wages during the first three months of the year increased by just 4.2%.