Austerity
She accused the Tory government of having "blood on its hands".
Promising billions in tax cuts for the rich, yet nothing for those struggling to make ends meet after years of austerity, shows Johnson's true colours, Labour's Rachel Reeves writes
In the face of government cuts, we are constantly having to innovate to protect the most vulnerable in Liverpool. But we can’t keep this up forever.
The funding system for English councils has been called 'unsustainable'.
So long as the government refuses to end the indefinite detentionor scrap discriminatory hostile environment policies, the UK’s appointment of an ambassador to champion human rights around the globe will be tainted by hypocrisy.
Professor Alston said “austerity could easily have spared the poor, if the political will had existed to do so”. We need a radical change to establish the sort of society we want to become.
Councils are staring at a £51.8billion funding black hole over the next six years. This can no longer be ignored.
Council leaders are calling for clarity and emergency funding from the government, a new report has warned.
Ending austerity, individualistic thinking and unstable employment must be the first steps to addressing the ever-growing epidemic of mental health.
Ten years after austerity measures were put in place in the UK, the government has finally reported a small budget surplus. The huge debts incurred after bailing out banks during the 2008 global financial crisis led to an emergency budget which massively reduced government spending. But homelessness, child poverty and reliance on food banks have increased. In this episode of The Breakdown By HuffPost, we explore if austerity measures were a temporary and necessary financial tool to bring the country back from the edge of bankruptcy, or a new mindset of how the government funds social spending like housing, welfare and schooling. If the employment rate is at a 44-year low, why are people doing so badly under austerity Britain?