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Michael Roberts – UK: still winter, no sign of spring

March 26, 2025 Ben Wray 0

The UK is going from bad to worse in terms of the economy, poverty, welfare – everything. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog The […]

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Inequality

Paul Hickman, Kesia Reeve – ‘We’d just switch everything off’: six in ten social housing tenants go without essentials to pay rent

February 11, 2025 Ben Wray 0

A sad indictment of 21st century England. Paul Hickman is Professor of Housing and Social Policy at Sheffield Hallam University. Kesia Reeve is Principal Research Fellow at Sheffield Hallam University. Cross-posted from The Conversation The social […]

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Inequality

Adam Tooze – Chartbook 330: Africa & absolute poverty in an era of polycrisis

October 28, 2024 Ben Wray 0

The reduction in global absolute poverty has stalled. In Adam Tooze’s Substack. Read the article HERE.

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Inequality

Michael Roberts – Measuring global poverty

October 9, 2024 Ben Wray 0

How you measure extreme poverty is a major determinant in whether you think we are getting close to eradicating it or not. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted […]

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Austerity

Yonatan Berman, Tora Hovland – The cost of austerity: How UK public spending cuts led to 190,000 excess deaths

June 20, 2024 Ben Wray 0

When will politicians learn that austerity kills? Yonatan Berman is a Lecturer in Economics in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute […]

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Climate Crisis

Jodie Keane – New EU trade rules could put poor countries in a billion dollar ‘green squeeze’

April 29, 2024 Ben Wray 1

A series of new EU rules are set to increase costs for global south companies when exporting to Europe, an approach which is supposed to tackle climate change but may simply increase poverty. Jodie Keane […]

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Finance

Euronews: Low-income Europeans face hard times in housing cost struggle

April 22, 2024 Ben Wray 0

“ECB research shows that more than one-fourth of low-income households expect late payments on their mortgages in the coming months.” In EuroNews. Read the article HERE.

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EU politics

Oxfam – A wealth tax on EU multi-millionaires and billionaires could raise 286.5 billion euros each year, 40% of the EU’s recovery fund

January 15, 2024 Ben Wray 0

As the World Economic Forum begins in Davos, a new Oxfam report on inequality reveals an incredible growth in inequality in the EU. Cross-posted from the Oxfam website The EU’s five richest billionaires increased their […]

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Austerity

Amy Brown: Having a single parent doesn’t determine your life chances – the data shows poverty is far more important

November 27, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The right-wing press love to stigmatise single parenting but it’s not backed up by the evidence. Amy Brown is Professor of Child Public Health at Swansea University. Cross-posted from The Conversation Numerous research studies have […]

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Inequality

Stewart Lansley: Poverty in Britain is firmly linked to the country’s mountain of private wealth – Labour must address this growing inequality

September 6, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Labour appear to have given up on tackling poverty and inequality before they have even got into power. Stewart Lansley is Visiting Fellow at the School of Policy Studies, University of Bristol. Cross-posted from The […]

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A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine by Chris Hedges

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Book Review by Chris Green It provides a modicum of relief to one’s mental health to turn from Nicholas Kristof’s lame bothsidesism and Bernie Sanders’s blather about Israel’s “right to defend itself” to reading Chris […]

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Abundance – How We Build a Better Future by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

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Book Review by Michael Roberts Abundance is a new book that has been attracting attention and debate among mainstream economists and politicians.  It aims to explain to Democrat members in the US why their party […]

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