cost of living
Oxford City Council to provide free period products in public spaces
As period poverty in the UK rises, Oxford is to launch a scheme offering free sanitary protection in public toilets and other public buildings across the city.
Wera Hobhouse MP: A national home insulation programme is vital to bringing down energy bills
Improving the energy efficiency of our homes brings down bills as people use less energy to heat their homes. It seems obvious, but the Conservatives don’t seem to recognise the urgency of this.
Low income growth leaves families ‘brutally exposed’ to cost of living crisis
Real household disposable income growth for working-age families averaged just 0.7 per cent a year in the 15 years leading up to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Prof Prem Sikka: Rishi Sunak’s measures fail to address the systemic factors behind the cost-of-living crisis
'The government has failed to address the systemic factors behind the cost-of-living crisis. '
BBC Question Time audience slams timing of Rishi Sunak’s £400 energy bill discount
If the Sue Gray report hadn’t had come out we wouldn’t be getting this windfall tax.
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