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Will city devolution tackle national inequality?

City devolution must offer new opportunities to address systemic national and city-wide inequalities and be ...

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We need to talk about debt

The toxic combination of rising debt levels, wage stagnation and an ongoing squeeze on living ...

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Introducing the ‘viable economy’

We have published The Viable Economy, a pamphlet for everyone concerned about the dangers we ...

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Devo max or devo mess? A skills response

Our economy will have 13.5 million job vacancies in the next decade but with only ...

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A localised approach to the living wage

We highlight the injustice of employers paying over £200,000 a week to people kicking a ...

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The price of not paying a living wage

Right now it feels as if human decency is on a zero hours contract. There ...

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Councils must make their contracts living wage

Local authorities should pay the living wage. Everyone who cares for our parents, cooks our ...

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Local government needs to address low pay

Addressing low pay is part of the place leadership role of local government, and the ...

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Local economic policy must get social

National economic policy is in the grip of a narrow and at times sacrosanct neo-liberal ...

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FC United: Local football club or community enterprise?

FC United of Manchester - a football club owned and run by the local community ...