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Oh no, it doesn't.
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Long read on Newcastle, the city closest to where I'm from:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2014/nov/24/-sp-is-saving-newcastle-mission-impossible
Wholly depressing and disgusting.“By 2017-18,” Forbes said, “our estimate is that we will have less than £7m to spend on everything the city council does, above and beyond adult and children’s social care. So it’s completely untenable.”
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Meanwhile, the juggernaut of evil mayrily rolls on:
From next Monday 88,000 families across Britain will have their housing benefit slashed. They will no longer have the cash to pay their rent. Among all those whose lives will be turned upside down will be a quarter of a million children. That’s enough kids to fill 350 primary schools, all facing homelessness.
Those figures come directly from the Department for Work and Pensions. Plenty dispute them, which is unsurprising since DWP officials keep changing their minds. Some experts believe the number of children at risk could total 500,000.
This is the biggest benefit cut that you’ve never heard of. The newspapers will waste gallons of ink on Candice Bake-Off’s lipstick and Cheryl’s apparent baby bump. But about a government policy that could disrupt hundreds of thousands of lives, there is near silence.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/31/child-poverty-theresa-may-housing-benefit-cuts
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I still can't see any evidence of the basic negative trends being addressed by the supposedly more caring new administration.
A good summary:
A new report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation highlights the rise of the working poor. The political tactic to justify monstering the welfare state using rhetoric around poverty being largely the result of unemployment or “skiving” has been largely successful. But that narrative is falling apart. The number of workers living in poverty (counted as having below 60% of median income) is larger than it has ever been. One in eight workers – 3.8 million people – live in poverty. They work, often in more than one job, but wages are low and rents are high. In London and the south-east, rents often account for a third of income. Working-age benefits have been cut. Many people now live in extreme financial difficulty. Those with disabilities have borne the brunt of this onslaught. Women are worse off than men.
Much of what has happened in the name of austerity has been well documented. But this is not just about cuts. We have a crisis of pay. And of housing. Decent wages and affordable homes are but a dream for many. But failure to live the dream is so often experienced as individual failure. A culture that tells people that work is the way out of deprivation cannot explain the current deprivation. It locates it elsewhere: Europe, immigration, globalisation.
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Something from Germany.
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/armut-in-deutschland-regierung-strich-heikle-
passagen-aus-armutsbericht-1.3295247Allegedly, certain passages stating that richer people disproportionately influenced politics were deleted in the final drafting stages of a report on the degree of political influence wielded by different groups.
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I've been thinking about changing the thread title to something more Mayesque, as I haven't yet come across an instance in which she's aped Cameron in this (although I expect she probably has), or starting a new thread. Any suggestions welcome.
Anyway, here's a new report about what much of this really aims at:
It could, of course, be that the race to the bottom doesn't end there.
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We all trickle down together:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/15/kansas-trump-style-tax-cuts-economic-disaster
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and the biggest soure of their continued wealth and privilege? you guessed it! tax avoidance.
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Anyway ...
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/uk-one-of-the-most-unequal-countries-in-the-developed-world-claims-oxfam-a3343511.html