Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week
A roundup of progressive news…
Inequality
Dawn Butler MP: ‘We can’t allow levelling up to be seen only in geographic terms’
‘If the Government is serious about tackling inequality and levelling up, it needs to act to increase the incomes of those in poverty’
Why tackling the class pay gap should also be a priority for progressives
People from working-class backgrounds who enter ‘elite’ universities and professions still earn on average £6,400 less than peers drawn from the middle-class.
Calls for a 6% increase to benefits to protect low-income families amid cost of living crisis
‘There has long been a profound mismatch between what those with a low income have, and what they need to get by’
Levelling up? 2 key facts that show how the country has become less equal under the Tories
Cuts to English council and schools’ spending have been larger in more deprived areas.
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 4, January 2022
The news you didn’t see this week…
Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week
A roundup of progressive news…
The UK government’s economic policies have also contributed to the Covid death toll
‘A public inquiry needs to go deeper and consider the effects of government economic policies, corporate profiteering and low pay on daily life.’
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 3, January 2022
The news you didn’t see this week…
UK poverty report: 1.8 million children are growing up in deep poverty
There are 500,000 more children living in significant poverty in 2019/20 compared to 2011/12
