2023 was the worst year for homelessness caused by Section 21 evictions - and we still don't know when they'll finally be scrapped

'Since 2000 the UK has slipped 21 places in the rank of nations by per capita income. That is the fastest slide of any country in these league tables since 1945.'

Will Hutton spoke to Bobby Duffy at our event with Fairness Foundation last week

Watch ➡️ youtube.com/live/I-7SIa6AV…

Reminder that before 1982, stock buybacks were considered stock manipulation.

Reagan's SEC opened the floodgates to their abuse.

Stock buybacks don’t create more jobs. They don't increase wages. They don’t grow the economy.

They do one thing: Make corporate execs richer.

🗣️ 'Try completing three forty-page forms, collating reems of evidence, requesting three mandatory reconsiderations, attending three tribunals''

❌ Claiming for PIP is not easy❌

UK charities hiring staff with ‘privilege not potential’, report author warns dlvr.it/T67bQq

We’re working towards a future where no one needs a food bank.

This isn’t an easy task, but we know what needs to be done.

Take a look at the steps we need to see to end hunger in the UK. ⤵️💚

This single paragraph explanation of the financial crisis by Prof Mark Blyth cannot be shared enough. Please RT

They take from ordinary citizens,
& hand over billions in dividends to failing privatised companies' shareholders,
And billions more in contracts to rich 'VIPs' who deliver unusable goods.
#torychaos #NeverForget

Piece on Sure Start free to read here. A cost effective programme enhancing life chances of poor children. A series of policy mistakes saw it diluted and effectively ended. We have chosen a different route: childcare subsidies for working families, not support for poor families.

Middle East Eye Here’s Emory University economics professor Caroline Fohlin knocked to the ground with her head on the concrete. Her glasses are thrown off. She shouts “I’m a professor”
#Gaza #Protesters

‘No dividing line’: consultants advising private water companies also work for their regulator, Ofwat theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Watch the full interview: youtu.be/CLPGrdRid7Y?si…

Order Vulture Capitalism: waterstones.com/book/vulture-c…

>> Watch till the end…

Hunger is just part of the devastating reality facing 4.2 million UK children growing up in poverty. Help us imagine a better future.

If you agree it shouldn’t be like this, join our community: cpag.org.uk/imagine?utm_so…

#ImagineBetter #ChildPoverty

My patient has been waiting for a hip operation for 18 mths

They can’t work with their current symptoms

& it isn’t safe to do so on a building site

They have had to have sick notes

The Tories have destroyed our NHS so badly, THEY are the problem

Not patients

#SickNoteSunak

Did you miss the panel on #taxtherich with Joseph E. Stiglitz , Gabriel Zucman, Esther Duflo, Chenai Mukumba, Guilherme Mello 🇧🇷, Dr. Ndzana Olomo Patrick African Union , Katherine Baer IMF & Andrea Shalal Reuters of April 17 at #WBGMeetings ?
Watch it here: shorturl.at/xDLM2

❗ This #StressAwarenessMonth , a reminder that all people living in poverty suffer extra stresses on day-to-day decisions that can cause or exacerbate long-term conditions - perpetuating the poor-health poverty loop.

What's Labour's macro view of the economy?

Jagjit Chadha National Institute of Economic and Social Research critiques their fiscal and monetary worldview

Tim Besley sets out a vision for a cohesive future

Thanks to all the contributors for superb essays

Full collection here: smf.co.uk/publications/l…

'Those aged between twenty and forty, hold only eight per cent of Britain’s total wealth.'

The Inequality of Wealth: Why it Matters and How to Fix it Liam Byrne MP Bloomsbury Books UK 💰⚖

Review by Vamika Goel ➡ wp.me/p2MwSQ-hhf

It is lovely to see some sunshine outside this #SaturdayMorning , even though it is quite cold but at least our view roughly replicates that of Brynhild Parker's 'Interior' from 1930, for once! #BrynhildParker #SaturdayThoughts #EastLondonGroup

Anyway. Pretty conclusive evidence today that the UK system is bad for those sanctioned, bad for economy and bad for society. It needs fundamental reform.
And a bit more in this thread on the wider international evidence:
twitter.com/tonywilsonIES/…