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Councillor slams government funding cuts for Birmingham bankruptcy
"Local government over the last decade has had more cuts than any vital department"
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Councillor slams government funding cuts for Birmingham bankruptcy
"Local government over the last decade has had more cuts than any vital department"
How Pickles’s brutal council tax benefit reforms will pulverise the working-age poor
Pickles' council tax benefit reform will disproportionaly affect the working-age population, incentivise local authorities to push poor people out to neighbouring boroughs, will penalise councils of poorer areas and create a patchwork of inconsistent systems.
Looking behind the headlines in today’s employment figures
Today’s job figures are good, but the news on public sector employment is turning gloomy much faster than expected - and there are quite a few other worries.