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2013-02-08 13:07:14     UK most unequal country in the West - News - The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/...try-in-the-west-1329614.html

Britain is now the most unequal country in the Western w... authoritative new United Nations report reveals. The gap... poor is as great as in Nigeria.
Detailed statistics in the Human Development Report publ ...

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2014-01-10 16:42:35     Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness - Crime - UK - The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/...on-homelessness-8631665.html

Police in north London have seized blankets, sleeping ba... donations from rough sleepers in a crackdown on homeless...

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2012-09-12 22:55:04     CCTV used in more than 200 school toilets - Home News - UK - The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/...-school-toilets-8129979.html

More than 200 schools are using CCTV cameras in toilets ... figures showed today.
A total of 825 cameras were located in the toilets or ch ...

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2013-03-14 08:12:03     Majority of British children will soon be growing up in families struggling 'below the breadline', Government warned - UK Politics - UK - The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/...vernment-warned-8531584.html

The majority of British children will soon be growing up... are struggling “below the breadline” because of welf... and wage freezes, the Government is warned today.
Within two years, almost 7.1m of the nation’s 13m youn ...

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2011-08-18 18:12:48     Ben’s Blog - Inside Time Newspaper

http://www.insidetime.org/articleview.asp?a=737&c=bens_blog

Lifer Ben Gunn’s Prison Blog … the only blog by a se... prisoner which ‘looks stupidity and ignorance in the e... attempting to inject some neurons into the criminologica...

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2010-06-15 08:59:05     The myth of the structural deficit - Investors Chronicle

http://www.investorschronicle.co.uk/...tructural-deficit.jsp

In a letter to the Sunday Times, a group of economists h... government to "set out a detailed plan to reduce the str... deficit more quickly than set out in the 2009 pre-budget... raises one of my gripes - that the notion of a structura... is unhelpfu

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2016-09-14 18:35:45     Thousands die after being declared 'fit for work' - no wonder Tories didn't want anyone to know - Terry Christian - Mirror Online

http://www.mirror.co.uk/...-die-after-being-declared-6348067

More than 4,000 people died within six weeks of being fo... work”, the Department for Work and Pensions has admitted.
The figures cover the period between December 2011 to Fe ...
Of the total, 1,360 died after losing an appeal against ...

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2018-03-04 12:41:35     The Self-Attribution Fallacy – George Monbiot

http://www.monbiot.com/2011.../the-self-attribution-fallacy/

Intelligence? Talent? No, the ultra-rich got to where th... and brutality.

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2014-01-23 21:21:40     Utah is Ending Homelessness by Giving People Homes | NationofChange

http://www.nationofchange.org/...ing-people-homes-1390495383

This trend makes Utah’s accomplishment even more notew... years, Utah has quietly reduced homelessness by 78 perce... to end homelessness by 2015.
How did Utah accomplish this? Simple. Utah solved homele ...

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2014-01-09 07:05:04     Benefits Street: a toxic caricature of Britain’s poor | new economics foundation

http://www.neweconomics.org/...c-caricature-of-britains-poor

In our currently unstable economy, many are finding that... – people are increasingly moving in and out of work, a... support between these brief spells of employment. Even t... are finding it hard to meet the cost of living – a clo... UK’s bene

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2012-09-28 10:13:13     New Statesman - Tax avoidance isn't a left or right issue, it's a cancer eating our democracy

http://www.newstatesman.com/...s-cancer-eating-our-democracy

Topshop pays 140 times as much tax as Google, despite be... less profitable business.

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2015-02-21 19:17:48     Monopoly’s Inventor: The Progressive Who Didn’t Pass ‘Go’ - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/...nventor-who-didnt-pass-go.html?...

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2011-06-18 14:55:41     China military paper urges steps against U.S. cyber war threat | Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/...internet-idUSTRE75F2GS20110616?...

(Reuters) - China must boost its cyber-warfare strength ... Pentagon push, the country's top military newspaper said... weeks of friction over accusations that Beijing may have... of Internet hacking attacks.

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2015-04-02 13:29:00     The American people are clueless: Why income inequality is so much worse than we realize - Salon.com

http://www.salon.com/...h_worse_than_we_realize_partner/?...

In a candid conversation with Frank Rich last fall, Chri... people don’t even know. If poor people knew how rich r... there would be riots in the streets.” The findings of ... published over the last several years inPerspectives on ... Science, su

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2010-06-15 09:01:14     National Statistics Online - Public Sector

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=206

Public Sector
Monthly: £9.3 current budget
Graphs showing cumulative public sector finance and net debt
Graphs showing cumulative public sector finance and net debt
... Published on 21 May 2010 at 9:30 am

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2016-09-28 21:02:51     Tax Research UK » The Conservatives have been the biggest borrowers over the last 70 years

http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/...ers-over-the-last-70-years/

I was interviewed twice on the radio on Friday evening t... McDonnell’s new fiscal rule, once on LBC and the other... both cases the interviewers were quite explicit in stati... known that Labour always borrowed more than the Conserva... why the ele

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2016-10-17 12:41:41     Tax Research UK » The Conservatives have been the biggest borrowers over the last 70 years

http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/...ers-over-the-last-70-years/

the Conservatives are the party of high UK borrowing and... contrary to all popular belief, including that of most r...

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2014-10-21 20:46:28     What Role Does Technology Play in Record Levels of Income Inequality? | MIT Technology Review

http://www.technologyreview.com/...echnology-and-inequality/

The disparity between the rich and everyone else is larg... United States and increasing in much of Europe. Why?

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2015-09-12 16:44:08     The women taking on Isis: on the ground with Iraq's female fighters | Art and design | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/...raq-yazidi-female-fighters?...

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2014-01-20 10:39:52     Oxfam: 85 richest people as wealthy as half of the world's population | Business | theguardian.com

http://www.theguardian.com/...chest-people-half-of-the-world

The extent to which so much global wealth has become cor... handful of the so-called 'global elite' is exposed in a ... Oxfam on Monday. It warned that those richest 85 people ...
Working for the Few - Oxfam report Source: F. Alvaredo, ...
The wealth

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2014-11-23 12:36:19     Richest 1% of people own nearly half of global wealth, says report | Business | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/...al-wealth-credit-suisse-report

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2015-04-26 20:31:33     Sunday Times Rich List: Britain's richest double their wealth in 10 years | Business | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/...e-their-wealth-in-10-years?...

Crisis? What crisis? The 1,000 wealthiest people in the ... £547bn, not counting what’s in their bank accounts, a... latest Sunday Times Rich List

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2015-07-27 21:58:01     To us, it's an obscure shift of tax law. To the City, it's the heist of the century | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/comm.../tax-city-heist-of-century

At the moment tax law ensures that companies based here,... other countries, don't get taxed twice on the same money... only the difference between our rate and that of the oth... example, Dirty Oil plc pays 10% corporation tax on its p...
Foreign mea

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2013-11-29 18:53:29     Technology didn't kill middle class jobs, public policy did | Dean Baker | Comment is free | theguardian.com

http://www.theguardian.com/...ology-middle-class-jobs-policy

A widely held view in elite circles is that the rapid ri... the United States over the last three decades is an unfo...
These were jobs where people with limited education used ...
This story is comforting to elites, because it means tha ...
That's a ni

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2014-04-08 11:45:32     Why UK universities shouldn't be hostile to alternative economic models | Maeve Cohen and Catriona Watson | Comment is free | theguardian.com

http://www.theguardian.com/...-models-post-crash-society?...

What follows may just seem to be a story about one cours... university, but it has important ramifications, not only... national debate about economics education, but for econo... politics itself. We, the Post-Crash Economics Society at... Manchester,

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2014-02-15 09:28:23     What's that sucking sound? It's all the public money and private wealth being swallowed up by London | Aditya Chakrabortty | Comment is free | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/...te-wealth-london-north-v-south

At the end of 2011, the IPPR North thinktank totted up a... spending on transport projects up till 2015. Londoners e... investment of £2,731 per head, far outstripping any oth... north-east received a measly £5 per head.

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2014-01-04 18:55:59     From cash machines to courgettes, the poor will pay more | Zoe Williams | Comment is free | theguardian.com

http://www.theguardian.com/co.../cash-machines-poor-pay-more

Lack of access to non-charging cashpoints is just one ex... dice are loaded against poor people in a free market

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2014-01-20 10:46:03     Britain is scared to face the real issue – it's all about inequality | Will Hutton | Comment is free | The Observer

http://www.theguardian.com/...ty-threat-recovery-poverty-pay

It's inequality, stupid. It's inequality that is behind ... and the growth of the welfare bill. It's inequality prop... escalating demand for credit. It's inequality that has c... banking system and its still feral proclivities. It's in... provoked th

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2015-03-23 10:26:49     The strange new world of evidence-free government | Zoe Williams | Comment is free | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/...ment-ministers-cost-cutting-pr

When ministers’ priorities are cost-cutting and short-... research into what actually works falls by the wayside ⮮. consequences

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2011-08-15 15:12:39     Police kill mobile phone service to squelch protest • The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/...ce_cut_mobile_phone_service/

In response to a threatened protest in its subway system... authorities temporarily shut down mobile phone service i... stations of the Bay Area Rapid Transit District, known l...

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