Tag: inequality
Publications
- Does the EU work for working class people?
- Budget Briefing 2016
- Briefing: Spending Review 2015
- What is aspiration?
- The mythology of business
- Briefing: The Tax Lock
- The First 100 Days
- Briefing: Manifesto summary - the smaller parties
- Election 2015: What’s at stake for fairer tax?
- Election 2015: What’s at stake for social security?
- Election 2015: What’s at stake for the economy?
- Election 2015: What’s at stake for housing?
- Election 2015: What’s at stake for work, pay and unions?
- Trade unions and economic inequality
- Tackling the housing crisis
- The role of local government in a modern state
- In the public interest
- The importance of the labour movement in tackling inequality
- Without Social Europe there can be no Social Britain in our lifetime
- Think Big, Think Bold
- Why immigration is good for all of us
- BRIEFING: Bankers’ Bonuses
- Reconstruction after the Crisis: A Manifesto for Collective Bargaining
- Education, justice and democracy
- Austerity Illusions and Debt Delusions
- Boom-time for legal loan sharks
- In Place of Fear
- Duty to care
- In Land Revenue
- Financing the Social State
- The Case for Universalism
- Exposing the Myths of Welfare
- Abolishing Want in a Social State
- Tackling Squalor
- Achieving a Social State
- Why Inequality Matters
- What would a socially just education system look like?
- Towards a new tax consensus
- Rising inequality and financial crises
Blog
- The rise of zero hour contracts and what Sports Direct can teach us
- Dr Faiza Shaheen: Youth week roundup
- Day 5: Economic growth and youth prospects by region
- Day 4: Class, privilege and Oxbridge.
- Day 3: Student debt
- Day 2: International students
- Day1: Brexit: Implications for young people
- 4 reasons why grammar schools are a bad idea.
- Brexit induced xenophobia and racism: how bad is it and what needs to be done?
- Today’s package of measures from Bank of England fails on inequality
- 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?
- Brexit: The new class war?
- Queen’s Speech: response
- Putting inequality back on the centre-left agenda
- Economic growth slows, and the problem is bigger than the EU Referendum
- The 2016 Rich List: Another sign that our economy is defunct
- Tax and the wealthy: the tip of a very unhealthy iceberg
- 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
- 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?
- 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 economics of Google’s tax
- How can we help the wealthy part with their wealth?
- 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
- We need a fairer deal for members of the armed forces
- #EqualPayDay: What are the facts?
- Let’s (Cautiously) Celebrate Living Wage Week
- Benefit advisers in foodbanks: a backwards step
- Steelwork closures and the importance of class and place
- 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
- Grammar schools segregate children by social class
- The new Housing Bill is even worse than expected
- 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
- What do we know about race, education and inequality in contemporary Britain?
- What does the proposed deal on right to buy mean for social housing?
- My take on what progressive housing policy could look like
- The Trade Union Bill: Our Panel’s Reaction
- It’s time to change the debate on migration
- Teaching Aspiration
- Against Aspiration
- Enabling Aspiration
- Young people’s debts have doubled in five years and are now highest of all age groups
- How the Conservatives are ‘strengthening’ child poverty measures in the UK
- Young Social Tenants Hit Hardest by Budget
- 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
- The Academies and Education Bill will not help Britain’s schools
- Child benefit and the fight against poverty
- An EU Perspective On Wage Inequality
- The Queen’s Speech: our panel’s reaction
- Cameron’s new crusade against criminal wage-workers
- Five ways to deal with a full blown Conservative Government
- First 100 Days - Tackling Inequality
- First 100 Days - Ensuring Gender Equality
- First 100 Days - Restoring Power to Working People
- First 100 Days - A plan for the economy
- Political action must be taken to eliminate food banks from the national landscape
- 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
- The collapse of housing supply has forced many to breaking point
- We need a government that will fight for our future
- Collective bargaining can begin to rebalance our economy
- The select committee confirms it: academies are a failed experiment
- How can we reduce the need for food banks?
- Will the new stamp duty actually cost you more?
- Autumn Statement 2014: Seven thinkers share their views
- What to make of this year’s Autumn Statement?
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
- Class at conference season: Submit your events for our Progressive Guide to Labour Party Conference
- Class and Red Pepper launch first in a series of mythbusters: Exposing the myths of welfare
- 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
