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Women bear over two-thirds of Coalition’s tax rises and benefit cuts
The Fawcett Society are taking their legal challenge against the Budget to the High Court. Yvette Cooper has released research showing two-thirds of tax rises and benefit cuts will hit women.
New anti-cuts campaign launched
A new anti-cuts campaign website, False Economy, launched today, backed by the TUC.
World finally wakes up to coalition’s assault on school sport
Fully one month after the scale of the government's cuts to school sport were unveiled, politicians, journalists and sports stars have at long last been stirred into fighting back, the realisation of the horror about to be unleashed finally dawning. As Left Foot Forward reported in October, the Department for Education is scrapping the £162 million PE and Sports Strategy - a strategy which has been proven to work, significantly raising participation in competitive sport.
Spending review slashes £60bn from growth
David Cameron and Ed Miliband make speeches today on growth. New analysis shows that last week's Spending Review will remove around £60 billion from the economy.
Coalition’s aim for a “school sport revolution” in tatters after CSR
The government's aim to “spark a competitive school sport revolution”, outlined only a month ago, looks set to become yet another broken coalition promise, following the cuts to school sport outlined in the Comprehensive Spending Review this week and the subsequent axing of targets and strategies which have resulted in increases in participation in school sport and rises in the number of pupils playing competitive sport.
Look Left – Britain is a “colder, crueller country”
This week the government unveiled the biggest cuts to public spending in decades. The regressive, unfair cuts (source: IFS), will lead to 500,000 job losses, with services up and down the country severely cut or axed completely. Johann Hari, in The Independent, described Britain as a "colder, crueller country" in the wake of the cuts.