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A round up of evidence-based views on the knife crime epidemic – including what action is really needed to prevent more young lives being lost.
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Knife crime incidents are individual tragedies, but rising homicide rates reveal a changing society which is ill at ease.
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Young people in the UK experience some of the worst working conditions. To understand why we need to look at longer-term changes in the political economy.
Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland National Park, UK.
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Approximately 50% of the UK’s poorest people live over 15 miles from a national park and most people require transport to get to them.
López Obrader wants to cut salaries for all government workers in Mexico, including himself.
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Mexico’s new president has reduced his own salary and demanded that all federal workers
– including lawmakers and judges – take a massive pay cut, too. That may be illegal.
But that counts people working less than six hours a week on zero-hour contracts.
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The government insistence of an employment success story betrays the reality of austerity job cuts and pay squeezes for many
What the ‘credit’ in Universal Credit actually means.
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The concept of Universal Credit reveals something wider about the UK’s current political fixation on debt.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan at the Walthamstow youth project, Spark2Life.
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Knife crime is a symptom of the toxic environments that adults create around children.
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Wage-increases can end austerity.
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Britain – and many other countries – is facing an acute care crisis that is inextricably linked to the entrenchment of neoliberalism.
UN envoy Philip Alston hears from people in Newcastle.
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The UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty has given a damning indictment of how austerity has hit the UK. A former UN envoy explains why his calls to uphold social rights are so crucial.
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The UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights will look at the effects of austerity on the UK’s most vulnerable.
The UK has had eight years of cuts to public services.
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Are the Conservatives admitting that austerity hasn’t worked?
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The harsh realities of being a child in austerity-driven Britain – revealed.
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Green spaces can help to address loneliness. But they are highly vulnerable to austerity.
The scene of the crime.
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Serious violence is rising, and there’s little more that police can do to stop it. Of course, the real culprits are cutbacks to the nation’s social protection systems.
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This shift in focus on social care funding could inject some honesty into the system.
Party conference season proved the perfect opportunity to make a big promise.
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Stick with her until after Brexit and she’ll end all your problems – so Theresa May says.
The 2008 financial meltdown caused millions of Americans to lose their homes, and the austerity measures that followed only widened income inequality and helped fuel the rise of right-wing populism.
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Right-wing populists have exploited key weaknesses in liberal democratic society that were exacerbated by the failure of political leaders to respond effectively to the 2008 financial crisis.
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Poorer families don’t have the resources to achieve the same as better off families – yet they’re being blamed for their situation.