Poverty and destitution are not the outcome of some invisible hand of fate, but the that of government policies and unresponsive economic and political institutions. The UK government has failed to develop a strategy for exiting the Covid-19 pandemic. A key element is the economic reconstruction to provide jobs, requiring policies for reducing inequalities and ensuring that people have good purchasing power.
Yet even before the pandemic, the government was heading in the wrong direction. Its obsession with austerity, wages freezes and cuts to public services increased poverty.
Young people, despite rising education levels, are beginning their career on low […]
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