Left Foot Forward have more confirmation of public sector job cuts

A new report on the impact of the recession from the End Child Poverty campaign. Author Donald Hirsch said: “We couldn’t afford to let the banks fail and now we can’t afford to fail our children, our future. Rising unemployment has created a new poverty crisis which could leave children scarred for life and cost society some £25 billion a year. This dwarfs the investment needed to hit the target to halve child poverty by 2010.”

Tom P at Labour and Capital has a novel explanation for why top pay just keeps rising