The economy may for now have escaped a ‘triple-dip’ but women, particularly those of us who are mothers, have experienced a triple- whammy from cuts which hit us as workers, as claimants and as carers. As the Fawcett Society recently identified: Women are being hit hardest by job cuts in the public sector; Women are […]
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Tories ramp up the class warfare
Sep 5th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.How do you deal with the deepest recession for nearly a century? According to the Tories, ignore the real cause – a massive lack of demand within the economy – and instead hammer the under-class whose fast-shrinking incomes contract further still the level of aggregate demand on which growth depends.
