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Let's start viewing wages as a source of demand
6 June 2014
The majority of the working people in the UK have still not recovered from the Great Recession. The inequality regarding the distribution of the costs of the crisis is just a continuation of three decades of rising inequality, which has...
Continue ReadingWe need growth fueled by rising wages, not more debt
5 June 2014
It’s been a lost decade for British workers. Real wages in Britain have been falling for several years now. Adjusted for inflation, wages are back to where they were in 2003. Part of this decline is due to the post-financial crisis...
Continue ReadingLabour's weakening hold on blue-collar workers
4 June 2014
Between 2005 and 2014 Labour has seen dwindling support from a wide range of blue-collar working demographic groups. Transient single populations in routine occupations; low income families; comfortably off industrial workers; middle-aged working couples with young children; older couples in...
Continue ReadingWe measure GDP, so why not housing affordability?
3 June 2014
The housing market can be the difference between financial sustainability and a bust. It can cause forms of inequality to multiply or underpin an egalitarian strategy to reduce poverty. It can lift up a Chancellor’s career in office and help...
Continue ReadingLong-term lessons
2 June 2014
With the results of May’s elections digested, the end of the current parliament has come into sight. So begins what will be one of the longest ‘long’ general election campaigns for decades. But on the policy issue which has shaped...
Continue ReadingHealth and care: The offer of integrated care is not Labour’s alone
29 May 2014
"A big banner policy with wonkish nuance". That was how the Health Service Journal's David Williams described the Labour leader's approach to big policy announcements the evening before his keynote speech on the NHS. The following day Ed Miliband unveiled his...
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