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Robert Peston walks us through a very important speech about the banking crisis. An essential read.
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Funnily enough, Chris Dillow says the answer is yes.
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New research from the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions on different policy responses to tackling undeclared work.
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New research from Fawcett on poverty among ethnic minority women – 40 per cent of whom are living in poverty. The study also finds that ethnic minority women are four times more likely than White women to take a job for which they are over-qualified.
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Nigel Stanley
The Guardian’s report on what John Denham was due to say at the Fabian launch of their new work on inequality stirred up the blog equivalent of a hornets’ nest. But when he came to actually deliver his speech, he said something rather different - as Sunder points out.
Unfortunately more people read the Guardian than the blogs where the debate is now more nuanced, and John Denham is no doubt now to be saddled as an opponent of equality.
But actually reading John’s words made me think how well they chimed with the recent TUC Touchstone on Middle Income Britain.
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New EEF report. The employers' organisation makes a case for putting manufacturing at the centre of a more diverse and durable UK economy.
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Read the latest edition of the TUC's regular free newsletter on work-life balance issues
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Tim Page
Who said this?
“The UK economy needs to be weaned off its dependency on financial services. To do this, it needs a national economic council to provide strategic leadership and an industrial bank to help businesses shunned by traditional high street lenders. Other ways to help could include the government sending signals about its long term priorities to give companies the confidence to invest. Government should also use its £175bn a year purchasing power to suport emerging industries and it should target investment in strategic sectors of the economy.”