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Women's Budget Group @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
This is welcome news. Redirecting focus from imprisoning women to exploring alternatives marks an important shift. Women’s centres achieve better outcomes and are more cost-effective, but they must be adequately funded to succeed. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Prisons minister aims to close one women’s jail in England and Wales
Exclusive: Timpson says government plans to reverse rise in female inmates and use alternative forms of punishment
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cullaghw.bsky.social @cullaghw.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
If you haven't completed this survey, make sure you do it today. Apparently transport survey participants are much more likely to be male (which could explain a lot) - so get your mothers, sisters, daughters etc to complete it too
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cullaghw.bsky.social @cullaghw.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Interesting use of Smart water - hadn't heard of this before
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Child Poverty Action Group @cpaguk.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Our new cost of a child calculations show that, for the first time since the research started in 2008, all family types on low and modest incomes are unable to meet their costs or reach what the public deems a minimum acceptable living standard.
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Carol Vorderman @carolvorders.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I talk about this endlessly in my book....how our current electoral system is NOT fit for purpose @petergeoghegan.bsky.social explains more re donations Jeez Labour...tighten up these horrors....
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cullaghw.bsky.social @cullaghw.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Might be time to re-watch the whole thing (again) - escape from the grim reality
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John McCabe @nechamberceo.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Thanksgiving was better during the Bartlet administration. Wingnuts out there will enjoy this…from pardoning two turkeys to the Butterball Hotline to Charlie and the knife. Happy Thanksgiving 🇺🇸 youtu.be/vH-J94gQMow
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Best Thanksgiving Moments | The West Wing
YouTube video by Warner Bros. TV
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
We are now up to 84 universities making staff redundant. A key part of our society is retreating at a staggering pace that would never be allowed if the decisions were all seen and weighed up together. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
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UK HE shrinking
This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country’s…
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Institute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org · 27/11/2024
💰 | Wealth is becoming the new work. The result is a society where life chances are increasingly determined by what you inherit, not what you do. In his new report, @tom-clark.bsky.social examines 'big wealth' and looks at the policy options. www.ippr.org...
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Earning vs owning: Rescuing opportunity in the asset economy | IPPR
More people own assets today than in any other point in British history, blurring old boundaries between workers and owners. Most Britons are both. They ha
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Institute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org · 27/11/2024
📈 Your house has outvalued you this century. Since the turn of the century, house prices have more than tripled, while individual employee earnings have only doubled. Is wealth the new work? Find out here: www.ippr.org...
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North East Bylines @northeastbylines.co.uk · 27/11/2024
Campaigners continue to hold weekly protests at the site, with a faith vigil on the first Sunday of every month attracting people of many different faiths
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Human Rights campaigners at Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre
Campaigners continue to hold weekly protests at the site, with a faith vigil on the first Sunday of every month attracting people of many different faiths
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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
This is a brilliant report from Common Wealth on the long and deep effects of deindustrialisation in the two Midlands towns of Mansfield and Corby
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Women's Budget Group @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Really important piece by @hannahfearn.bsky.social with a quote from our director "If the government actually wants to get more people into the labour market, then it needs to deal with the underlying causes of the failure of support systems, & the fact that most of this work is being done by women"
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'I quit to fight for my son': how the SEND crisis is wrecking women's careers
Four in 10 parents of children with special educational needs have stopped working, and mothers are hit the hardest
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 26/11/2024
The proportion of low-to-middle income families with a mortgage has declined since the 1990s, with more renting in the private sector. In 2000-01 around 4-in-10 owned their own home, compared to just 3-in-10 in 2022-23. Read more ➡️ buff.ly/4hCO0kd
Chart showing proportion of low-to-middle income families in different tenure types: GB/UK
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cullaghw.bsky.social @cullaghw.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Sigh..... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Ignore the online CV truthers. If anything, Rachel Reeves is overqualified to be UK chancellor | Gaby Hinsliff
Gordon Brown and George Osborne studied history, but neither faced the questions of suitability levelled at the first woman in the job, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/11/2024
Home is the most dangerous place for women, says global femicide report
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Home is the most dangerous place for women, says global femicide report
Of the 85,000 women killed by men in 2023, 60% died at the hands of a partner or family member, new UN figures show An estimated 140 women and girls across the world die at the hands of their partner or family member every day, according to new global…
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