Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 3, March 2022
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poverty
Half of UK children ‘will have to sacrifice essentials like food’ due to cost of living crisis, report warns
The New Economics Foundation (NEF) says that 23.4 million people in the UK will be short by more than £8,500 a year for income needed to pay for essentials including food, heating and clothing by next month.
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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’
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 3, February 2022
The news you didn’t seek this week…
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.
‘Privatise the moon to help wipe out poverty on Earth’, says Adam Smith institute
“Anyone who even tries to do this should have tremendous force used against them.”
The government must invest in the early years if it wants to ‘level up’
‘Without the required investment in services for under-5s and their families, inequalities will continue to open up from the start’
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’
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 1, February 2022
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