Tag: austerity
Publications
- Does the EU work for working class people?
- Budget Briefing 2016
- Briefing: Spending Review 2015
- What is aspiration?
- The mythology of business
- The ‘budget surplus’ rule scam
- Briefing: The Tax Lock
- Briefing: Manifesto summary - the smaller parties
- Briefing: Manifesto summary - The two main parties
- Briefing: Productivity
- Election 2015: What’s at stake for fairer tax?
- Election 2015: What’s at stake for the NHS?
- Election 2015: What’s at stake for housing?
- Election 2015: What’s at stake for work, pay and unions?
- The check-off system for union fees
- Tackling the housing crisis
- The Great British Rip Off
- In the public interest
- How can the European left deal with the threat posed by xenophobia?
- Without Social Europe there can be no Social Britain in our lifetime
- Think Big, Think Bold
- Austerity Illusions and Debt Delusions
- In Land Revenue
- Financing the Social State
- The Case for Universalism
- Exposing the Myths of Welfare
- Abolishing Want in a Social State
- Tackling Squalor
- Fiscal austerity
Blog
- Brexit update: parliament is back in session
- Dr Faiza Shaheen: Youth week roundup
- 4 reasons why grammar schools are a bad idea.
- Lloyds cuts 3,000 jobs: where’s the accountability?
- 4 reasons why negotiating new trade deals won’t be easy after Brexit
- The mountain of student debt weighing on our young people may soon get even bigger.
- Theresa May’s brand of inequality
- Brexit: What next?
- Queen’s Speech: response
- Putting inequality back on the centre-left agenda
- Poverty and prosperity sit side-by-side in British cities
- Budget 2016: The reaction from our panel
- What can we expect from today’s budget?
- What are the next battles for gender equality?
- Looking ahead: what Class did next
- Now a lost eleven years on pay, unprecedented for at least 150 years
- How our social security system holds back low-paid workers
- The economics of Google’s tax
- How can we help the wealthy part with their wealth?
- The rollercoaster path of government spending on flood defence
- Spending Review 2015: Still failing to invest in women’s security
- Spending review 2015: Our Panel’s Reaction
- Spending review 2015: Your Guide
- The closure of Eaves charity is the tip of the iceberg in the crisis for women’s services
- Our study shows that economic recession leads to increased levels of suicide
- Selling off the government’s stake in housing associations is the endgame for social housing
- Selling off the Eurostar sets Britain apart from the rest of the world
- Why are the Tories so sanguine about adding £60 billion to public debt?
- Benefit advisers in foodbanks: a backwards step
- Economy growing at around half the pace of last year
- Tax credit cuts and the Living Wage: Do the numbers stack up?
- Low-paid workers – worse off next year and even worse off in 2020
- The fiscal charter media fiasco
- Government throws more money at the housing market – to benefit home buyers
- Cutting vital income and stigmatising the low paid? The Conservatives are no workers’ party
- Osborne’s Northern Powerhouse centralises power and devolves blame
- Against Aspiration
- Enabling Aspiration
- Young people’s debts have doubled in five years and are now highest of all age groups
- The importance of free museums in enriching our culture
- How the Conservatives are ‘strengthening’ child poverty measures in the UK
- A £12bn cut in welfare will put huge pressure on the NHS
- Five ways to deliver a good budget
- Budget 2015: Our panel’s reaction
- With this budget, the Chancellor is taking us into unknown territory
- Guardian letter in response to Chancellor George Osborne’s Mansion House Speech
- Budget surplus target plays politics with economic growth
- An EU Perspective On Wage Inequality
- The Queen’s Speech: our panel’s reaction
- First 100 Days - A plan for the economy
- Political action must be taken to eliminate food banks from the national landscape
- Despite IFS criticism, the Tories will have the last laugh
- Labour and Conservatives: the manifestos
- Personal Tax Allowance: How an Increase Widens Inequality
- The government’s evidence-free policy on benefit sanctions
- The worst thing about the Budget? The tax cuts
- Budget 2015: Our panellists give their reaction
- Storify: the top reactions to #Budget2015
- What to expect from the 2015 budget
- Housing will be one of the biggest issues facing the country at the General Election
- The myth of the end of workplace racism
- The impact on women of the recession and austerity
- Don’t believe the hype: average income has not returned to pre-crisis levels
- This election will decide whether the NHS will survive or perish
- Reversing the rising poverty tide requires fundamental change
- Look after employment and the budget deficit will take care of itself
- Making an everyday case for arts and culture
- It’s no surprise that charity workers say the Big Society is dead
- How can we reduce the need for food banks?
- Autumn Statement 2014: Seven thinkers share their views
- What to make of this year’s Autumn Statement?
- Time for more working-class women in Parliament
- Don’t be fooled - Ukip offers nothing to Britain’s workers
- Conservative Party Conference: The view from the library next door
- The great Home Office jobs trick
- Securing the future of our public services
- Fighting austerity: why we need to talk about human rights
- Why we are striking
- What to make of the IPPR report
- Most voters blame the banks for the crash
- VIDEO: The Great British Rip Off
- How to Change the Post-Crash Economy
- The housing crisis could become a disaster. Time for intervention
- Why Britain needs to end hunger fast
- What can we expect from Budget 2014?
- Paying the highest price: Austerity will accelerate area health inequalities
- Join me to debate The Great British Rip Off in Newcastle this evening
- Whose recovery is it?
- It’s the climate, stupid
- Hopeful signs in the labour market, but things remain a long way from normal
- Trade unions must be at the heart of the debate on living standards
- UK: manifestly inadequate
- GDP figures and three graphs which show a weak recovery in the UK
- Where are the stories about in-work poverty?
- What would a further £25bn of spending cuts mean for child poverty?
- What Labour needs to do in 2014
- The British left can be empowered by Obama’s speech on the economy
- Responses to the Autumn Statement
- Looking ahead to the Autumn Statement
- Our big challenge - Solidarity in the face of insecurity
Latest news
- Eminent economists denounce Osborne’s budget surplus plan
- Academics condemn Coalition’s economic legacy
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- Class Conference 2014: The Highlights
- Class at conference season: Submit your events for our Progressive Guide to Labour Party Conference
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