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New data has revealed the barriers single parents face in getting back to work, while rates of in-work poverty exposes Tory 'myth' that work is the route to riches, Sian Norris reports
‘It needs to be understood how governments have facilitated inequality in the world. Billionaires don’t happen naturally. The rules by which a country’s economy operates is controlled by governments. If …
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Right-wing unions help regime kill motion With the help of right-run unions, the Labour party’s right-wing regime has defeated a motion brought in support of striking workers, fair treatment for working people, support for the poor and vulnerable and to repeal the Tories’ new anti-worker law. The motion read: Strikes (Composited Motion) Leyton & Wanstead, […]
New ONS data reveals how cold homes and food insecurity is impacting people's physical and emotional health
New data from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation reveals the extent of poverty in families
The debt mountain according to the latest official figures is now a billion pounds higher than at the start of the pandemic, reports Chaminda Jayanetti
The NHS is being burdened by the scale of Britain’s health inequalities, reports Sam Bright
Starmer dislikes ‘constraint’ of Parliament and prefers speaking to people, while he likes obnoxious and anti-feminist hack Piers Morgan more than former party leader with whom he laughed and joked, then sabotaged. Does he actually listen to himself? Keir Starmer has told journalists that he likes Davos – the luxury playground get-together of billionaires, corporations […]