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17 October 2018
Universal credit = universal misery
Theresa May threw a bone to the public by declaring 'the end of austerity is in sight'.
29 August 2018
Working families £50 a week short of paying for kids
Feed your child or heat the house; buy a school uniform or pay the electricity bill - these are the kinds of impossible choices faced by more and more working parents every day
25 July 2018
Universal credit causes £24m rent arrears
The inept Tory government is yet again in the firing line after further details emerged about the shambolic roll-out of the cruel 'universal credit' welfare system
11 July 2018
Minister's benefits lie: sack the Tories - and scrap universal credit
Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey arrogantly refuses to step down, after admitting to "inadvertently" misleading MPs about problems with the already unpopular 'universal credit' welfare restructure.
20 June 2018
Universal Credit delivers claimant misery
Fight for liveable benefits, real support and decent jobs: The government's flagship welfare reform, Universal Credit, has been well and truly savaged by the National Audit Office.
13 June 2018
It's one world for the super-rich, and anotehr for the rest of us. Tories' multiple 'jobs' and Russian money; jobs and benefits disappear for us; Brown v Corbyn; two-thirds back rail renationalisation
14 March 2018
After congratulating themselves on nominally bringing the British state's finances out of the red - by plundering working class purses - the Tories sat down to vote on cutting provision of school meals and childcare.
31 January 2018
Majority of kids poor in some areas
In parts of London and Greater Manchester you are now more likely to grow up poor than not
24 January 2018
Universal credit: set up to fail
Only a few days after the roll-out of the Tories' new 'universal credit' benefits system, the working poor, disabled and most vulnerable in our society are already suffering.
3 January 2018
Tory prescription for mental illness: stress and bureaucracy
As an individual with mental health issues, it has been my misfortune to experience directly just how capitalist society, Britain 2017, treats such people. I can't imagine that my experience is particularly unique.
13 December 2017
Two in five 'right to buy' homes now for let
Scrap Thatcher's right to buy: Over 40% of ex-council houses sold under Thatcher's 'right to buy' scheme are now part of the private rental sector, according to Inside Housing.
6 December 2017
Driving examiners walkout hits first day of new test
PCS members at Wakefield Driving Test Centre began two days of strike action on 4 December against attacks on their terms and conditions of work as part of a national dispute
6 December 2017
Waltham Forest Universal Credit protest
Local MP Iain Duncan Smith devised the spiteful system, which has already left families in rent arrears and without benefits at Christmas time
6 December 2017
14 million people in the UK - over 20% of the population - are living below the poverty line
22 November 2017
Disability cuts outrage: my story
I am a 49-year-old woman who has been managing the progressive disease multiple sclerosis for 19 years. Shame on Capita! Shame on the Tory government!
8 November 2017
Child poverty set to hit 5.2m - unions and Corbyn must act now
Welfare cuts are set to make child poverty soar over the next five years to 5.2 million kids
8 November 2017
Bosses say 217 years to close pay gap - workers' struggle can close it now!
This is the first time figures have shown the situation is going backwards
25 October 2017
Universal Credit chaos: Tories punish the poor
The government seems hell-bent on rolling out Universal Credit, but even many of their own MPs don't agree - another fracture in this divided minority government
18 October 2017
Young people being strangled by debts
Take the wealth off the super-rich - no to the Tories' scapegoating of pensioners!: Over a third of young people are in debt - on average by £2,989 - says the Money Advice Trust
11 October 2017
Housing crisis: Corbyn's positive measures blanked by Labour's right
A standing ovation greeted Jeremy Corbin's pledges on housing at Labour's conference: to stop 'social cleansing' regeneration schemes and give residents a vote on regeneration proposals; to build more council homes and to control rents.
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