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We welcome the government’s new measures to support workers, particularly the introduction of grants for wage support. But despite the scale of these spending commitments, there is a real danger that millions of workers will not feel their benefit.
A global economic crisis has been waiting to happen for several years, now Coronavirus is triggering that crisis. PEF Council member Guy Standing makes the case for introducing a Basic Income as a first step toward dealing with the pandemic.
Guy Standing, PEF Council member and Professorial Resarch Associate, SOAS, examines the parties’ policies on Universal Credit.
Richard Murphy, PEF Council member, explains why raising the national insurance contributions threshold will write millions out of our pensions system.
Of the nineteen UK governments since the Second World War, only two have torn up the rule book and tried to build a better future, instead of simply recycling the
The UN has just issued a damning report on the UK’s policy failures over the past eight years, cataloguing and condemning the “unnecessary misery” inflicted by the policy.
If we accept private inherited wealth – ‘something for nothing’ – then we should accept the principle of ‘social dividends’ on inherited public wealth, created by many past generations.
We already have a National Health Service and free public education – what if we extended the same ethos to housing, transport, information access and food?
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