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🚨We need your help🚨
Six weeks to get candidates behind our plan for #SafeSickPay for millions of workers facing pain and illness with no proper support.
Take action with us this #GeneralElection👇
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Ever wondered why we don't build enough houses?
My new blog explores the myths about housebuilding:
- why building lots of houses won't bring prices down
- why the volume housebuilders don't like building too many houses
Blog: beautifulenterprise.co.uk/in…
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"We need and want people in the workplace, but we should remember that work was made for humans, not the other way round."
In anticipation of the Govts new childcare funding, Paul Bickley reflects on the tricky task of synthesising paid and unpaid work:theosthinktank.co.uk/comment…
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🚨NEW REPORT🚨
🤝What makes a truly fair and supportive workplace?
🖥️Are changing work dynamics impacting our sense of togetherness?
Today we have launched the first of 3 reports on love and work: 'The Ties That Bind' by @TimThorlby 🧵 #WorkShift theosthinktank.co.uk/researc…
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NEW BLOG - A story on the small print in our employment contracts & how it can make a huge difference to our lives.
If you don't know how statutory sick pay works, you really should. Spoiler: it's quite surprising.
Read the blog: beautifulenterprise.co.uk/in…
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🚨 JUST RELEASED: In the last three years the world’s 5 richest men became twice as rich: in the same time 5 billion become poorer. 🤯
As the rich & powerful politicians & business leaders meet in Davos for the World Economic Forum #WEF24, the richest 1% are being allowed to get richer & billions of people are sliding into poverty.
Let's end the injustice of this inequality crisis.
Read more from our latest report 🔗bit.ly/Inequality2024
#FightInequality #TaxTheRich
ALT In the last three years the world’s 5 richest men became twice as rich: in the same time 5 billion become poorer.
Tim Thorlby retweeted
Creating a more prosperous and equal country won't be straightforward.
After nearly three years of research, the Economy 2030 Inquiry has identified ten key steps to transform our economy and generate widely shared prosperity.
We’ll be laying them out throughout the day... 🧵
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Britain stuck as a ‘stagnation nation’ as GDP data lay bare the challenges for the Autumn Statement - @JamesSmithRF responds to the latest @ONS GDP data
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NEW: How do social enterprises grow? Without better data, we'll never really know, says @TimThorlby:
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@SocialEnt_UK @Voa1234 @ReGenerateTrust #SocEnt
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Here's my take on today's @bankofengland decision, in the @guardian.
In short, the UK should follow Spain's more balanced policy mix: Lower inflation expectations via expanded energy price support & ensure the burden of inflation is more fairly shared.
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Good to see that Community Wealth Building is now US Government policy. This is from the White House policy statement on ‘Bidenomics’ and equitable community development. #CommunityWealthBuilding @CommWealthBldng
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🏡💣What is the 'mortgage timebomb' and how could the government intervene?
This week’s New Economy Brief unpacks the political and economic fallout from rising interest rates and explores what it means for the fight against inflation: neweconomybrief.net/the-dige…
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🇬🇧 This morning, @TheCrownEstate, one of the UK's largest landowners, releases its annual report.
This week's New Economy Brief explores the question of land ownership, why so much of it is owned by so few, and what can be done to reform it.
neweconomybrief.net/the-dige…
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New Report: The richest 50 families in the UK have more wealth than the bottom half of the UK population (33.5 million people)
@RafaelWildauer and I analysed UK wealth inequality using The Sunday Times Rich List (1989 to 2023)
Funded by @BritishAcademy_ & @LeverhulmeTrust) 1/7
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🔐What is 'Securonomics'?
With Rachel Reeves setting out her philosophy in Washington last week, we take a deep dive into Labour’s economic policy, and suggest how the UK can learn the right lessons from US green industrial policy.
neweconomybrief.net/the-dige…
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NEW: Food prices are the new frontline in the cost of living crisis - this summer they’ll overtake energy prices as the biggest hit to family finances resolutionfoundation.org/pub…
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Really powerful image, sent through from the @nechildpoverty. Unfortunately, the North East leading the way for biggest increase for number of parcels distributed by @TrussellTrust at 54% rise over the last year.
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stats of the day:
- investment in water industry since privatisation has fallen nearly a fifth in past 30 years from £2.9bn a year to £2.4bn
- the companies (which had no debt) borrowed £53bn...much of this has been used to help pay £72bn in dividends
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“This new report from the Trussell Trust should shake politicians to their core... Hunger on this scale isn’t normally associated with a society in peacetime."
📢 JRF's @KatieSchmuecker on today's annual stats from @TrussellTrust
Our full response 👉 jrf.org.uk/press/jrf-respond…
We should all be able to afford the essentials, like food and household bills.
👉 Together with @jrf_uk, we're calling on the government to embed in law an Essentials Guarantee that would ensure Universal Credit at least covers the essentials we all need to get by.
ALT Photo shows a volunteer packing food tins at a food bank warehouse. A quote on the top from Emma Revie, Chief Executive at the Trussell Trust, reads: "For too long people have been going without because social security payments do not reflect life’s essential costs."
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Raising the minimum wage and stopping low-paid migration were supposedly meant to force employers to raise pay, investment & productivity. But the UK's Achilles heel is that it's dreadful at enforcing its own labour laws. ft.com/content/863105be-17d4…
