Category: Austerity

More than a fifth of UK’s ‘austerity children’ scarred by poverty, study says

Researchers say hardship is a direct legacy of welfare benefit cuts imposed by Tory governments in recent yearsMore than a fifth of all “austerity generation” British children have been scarred by poverty for at...

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Out of the red, but at what cost? Birmingham council asset sales have left city reeling, say residents

As council declares it’s ‘no longer bankrupt’, people say closure of services have added to social isolation and crimeWhen Birmingham city council announced last week it was “no longer bankrupt”,...

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Spending review: will Rachel Reeves’s huge fiscal gamble yield electoral dividends?

Despite a loosening of the purse strings the chancellor still faces a battle to convince voters that Labour can deliver change Rachel Reeves has gambled billions of pounds of infrastructure spending on “renewing...

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