Benefits sanctions
Our last edition contained an editorial on benefits sanctions. We are pleased to see that the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has published a new report that reveals the depth of the Read More
Our last edition contained an editorial on benefits sanctions. We are pleased to see that the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has published a new report that reveals the depth of the Read More
In the context of a discussion of the Labour Party’s intention to increase the National Minimum Wage if it wins the next General Election, the General Secretary of the Fabian Read More
During a speech in September 2012, Ed Miliband suggested that to tackle poverty the UK needs better ‘predistribution’, [1] and not just ‘redistribution’: that is, we need people’s pretax incomes Read More
Until recently, when someone who had been saving in a pension scheme reached retirement age, their pension pot – the fund built up through their own and maybe their employer’s Read More
The global financial crisis (GFC) has now been on-going for 6 years. All the promises made by politicians in 2008 that they would soon be able to restore the system Read More