ShareTweet By TUC As many people return to work today (Wednesday) after the Christmas and New Year break, and Frances O’Grady prepares for her first day as General Secretary at Congress House, she has issued a message setting out the TUC’s campaigning priorities for 2013: ‘I become TUC General Secretary at a…
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ShareTweet By Richard Seymour Making it easier to sack won’t boost productivity – yet the Tories imagine salvation lies in making Britain a low-wage economy As of next year, the government will make it much easier for you to be sacked. From April 2013, employers will only need a 45-day consultation period…
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ShareTweet By Julia Slay On Monday, we published ‘’Everyday Insecurity: Life at the End of the Welfare State’’, which paints a bleak picture of the impact that the new austerity – the combined impact of the recession, cuts and welfare reform – is having on people in some of England’s most deprived…
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ShareTweet By Barry Eichengreen Investors are missing the real risk: the collapse of public support for, or at least acquiescence to, austerity policies Is Europe‘s crisis over? Investors, policy analysts, and even officials are quietly beginning to suggest this might be the case. The euro has strengthened by nearly 10% against the…
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ShareTweet By Larry Elliott Weakness of economy means chancellor will have to cut spending or raise taxes by £22bn more than proposed in 2010 George Osborne will need to cut government expenditure or raise taxes by £48bn in the next Treasury spending round, according to a report. Research by the Social…
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ShareTweet By NYtimes Greece’s Parliament did what it had to do on Thursday. Despite some defections from the ruling centrist coalition, lawmakers narrowly approved a $23 billion package of new austerity measures, including further spending cuts to social services, pensions and public salaries, as well as tax increases demanded by Greece’s European…
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ShareTweet By Richard Excell In this excellent post, Richard Exell explains the gross inequalities of council tax – and the problems that government plans to cut council tax benefit will cause, as highlighted by our September research. Give the Daily Mail credit – they produced the best coverage of… THE WORLD’S MOST EXPENSIVE TERRACED…
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ShareTweet By Al Jazeera Rates of suicide and depression are on the rise in Spain as the unemployment figures there hit a record hig The number of people out of work in Spain has hit a record high as Europe struggles to contain its debt crisis. New figures show that one-in-four Spanish workers…
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ShareTweet By Martin Weaver TUC describes new research that the standard of living in one of every five families is being hit as ‘shocking’ One in five British workers and their families are likely to have inadequate standards of living because they are being paid less than the living wage, according to…
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ShareTweet By Paul Mason Of all the operas written during Germany’s Weimar Republic (1919-33), probably the most haunting is the last. Kurt Weill’s The Silver Lake, written with playwright Georg Kaiser, tells the story of two losers – a good-hearted provincial cop and the thief he has shot and wounded – as…
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