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Pride of Place

Instead of focusing on the abstract and transnational in environmental politics, we need to build out from people’s pride in their sense of place. People need to be able to see the change they wish there to be in the world.
By Natan Doron and Ed Wallis
June 2014

The cost of the pay gap

Pay for those at the top of our society continues to rise inexorably while average incomes stagnate. The gap between the remuneration of the so-called “super-managers” who run our top businesses and everyone else, is getting ever wider.

A chief executive...

Let's start viewing wages as a source of demand

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...

We need growth fueled by rising wages, not more debt

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...

Labour's weakening hold on blue-collar workers

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...

We measure GDP, so why not housing affordability?

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...

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