Tag: fair economy
Publications
- Does the EU work for working class people?
- Budget Briefing 2016
- Briefing: Spending Review 2015
- Changing the debate on migration
- What is aspiration?
- The mythology of business
- The ‘budget surplus’ rule scam
- Briefing: The Tax Lock
- The First 100 Days
- 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 economy?
- Election 2015: What’s at stake for work, pay and unions?
- Trade unions and economic inequality
- The Great British Rip Off
- Securing a decent deal for workers
- State intervention for wage-led development
- In the public interest
- Public services
- State and finance in financialised capitalism
- Without Social Europe there can be no Social Britain in our lifetime
- Think Big, Think Bold
- What is the 50p tax rate?
- BRIEFING: Bankers’ Bonuses
- Reconstruction after the Crisis: A Manifesto for Collective Bargaining
- Austerity Illusions and Debt Delusions
- Boom-time for legal loan sharks
- In Land Revenue
- Financing the Social State
- The Case for Universalism
- Exposing the Myths of Welfare
- Abolishing Want in a Social State
- Achieving a Social State
- Why Inequality Matters
- Towards a new tax consensus
- Fiscal austerity
- Rising inequality and financial crises
Blog
- Brexit update: parliament is back in session
- Day 2: International students
- Day1: Brexit: Implications for young people
- Today’s package of measures from Bank of England fails on inequality
- 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?
- Brexit: The new class war?
- Queen’s Speech: response
- Putting inequality back on the centre-left agenda
- Brexit is not the answer to the new generation of free trade agreements
- Economic growth slows, and the problem is bigger than the EU Referendum
- The 2016 Rich List: Another sign that our economy is defunct
- Promoting economic democracy in the twenty-first century
- Poverty and prosperity sit side-by-side in British cities
- The Panama Papers reveal deep problems at the heart of our economy
- It’s time to halt the UK’s great public asset boot sale and build Britain’s first social wealth fund
- The increase to the minimum wage should be welcomed, but the fight against inequality is being lost
- Budget 2016: The reaction from our panel
- What can we expect from today’s budget?
- The crisis behind the headlines of corporate scandals
- 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
- More likely to go to prison than university? But a degree doesn’t close the pay gap
- How our social security system holds back low-paid workers
- Why the Lords’ defeat of the government’s attempt to redefine child poverty is important
- The Trade Union Bill Impact Assessment: Adding insult to injury
- The economics of Google’s tax
- How can we help the wealthy part with their wealth?
- This is why junior doctors are protesting
- Spending Review 2015: Still failing to invest in women’s security
- #COP21: what the climate talks could mean for UK workers
- 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
- We need a fairer deal for members of the armed forces
- This is why lecturers at further education colleges are striking
- #EqualPayDay: What are the facts?
- Selling off the Eurostar sets Britain apart from the rest of the world
- Let’s (Cautiously) Celebrate Living Wage Week
- Benefit advisers in foodbanks: a backwards step
- Steelwork closures and the importance of class and place
- Economy growing at around half the pace of last year
- Tax credit cuts and the Living Wage: Do the numbers stack up?
- How can we measure national success? Five headline indicators to replace GDP
- 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
- Privatising Network Rail is a disastrous idea
- My take on what progressive housing policy could look like
- It’s time to change the debate on migration
- Against Aspiration
- Enabling Aspiration
- The People’s Post: Why we need a strong public voice at the heart of our postal services
- 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
- Young Social Tenants Hit Hardest by Budget
- The jobs figures: even if it’s a blip, it’s a worrying one
- 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
- George Osborne’s ‘budget surplus’ rule is ill-defined and unenforceable
- With this budget, the Chancellor is taking us into unknown territory
- TTIP: The elephant in the room
- An EU Perspective On Wage Inequality
- The Queen’s Speech: our panel’s reaction
- First 100 Days - Tackling Inequality
- First 100 Days - Defining a Green Agenda for Government
- First 100 Days - Ensuring Gender Equality
- First 100 days - Protecting Public Services
- First 100 Days - Restoring Power to Working People
- First 100 Days - Eradicating Poverty
- 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
- Labour will abolish the non-dom rule
- 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 impact on women of the recession and austerity
- Don’t believe the hype: average income has not returned to pre-crisis levels
- Reversing the rising poverty tide requires fundamental change
- Collective Bargaining, What’s It Good For?
- Look after employment and the budget deficit will take care of itself
- We need a government that will fight for our future
- Collective bargaining can begin to rebalance our economy
- If we’re going to tackle the A&E crisis, we need to address NHS privatisation
- Why we need rent control
- It’s no surprise that charity workers say the Big Society is dead
- How can we reduce the need for food banks?
- Will the new stamp duty actually cost you more?
Latest news
- Read all about the Class Election 2015 Series: What’s at stake?
- Class Conference 2014: The Film
- Class Conference 2014: The Photos
- Class Conference 2014: The Highlights
- New Class/YouGov poll finds 2 in 3 people want to cap executive salaries
- Guide to conference sessions and debates
- We hear your views on the living standards crisis in advance of our regional tour of events
- New Class-YouGov poll released today shows that most people are not benefitting from the recovery
- Class at conference season: Submit your events for our Progressive Guide to Labour Party Conference
- Class – Budget spokespeople
- Class and LSE Politics blog host lively debate on the Social State
- Frances O’Grady to speak at Class Parliamentary Launch
- Video of Class fringe meeting at Labour Party Conference
