Liberal Conspiracy » Carrot and sticks: getting people back to work
What worked well – giving unemployed people more support
What didn’t work well – sanctions and market-based incentives

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1945, government debt, bond markets, sterling – and all that
Ann Pettifor puts government debt in perspective on her Debtonation blog

Let’s raise the minimum wage to £6
Brendan has a piece on our thoughts for the National Minimum Wage over at Comment Is Free. A rise would help a million Britons to escape from poverty, save the [...]

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While European leaders try today to agree how much the EU should pay to help developing nations fight global warming, we join 50 Department of Energy and Climate Change stakeholders for a One-Year Anniversary Discussion. It’s a year since DECC was set up. How’s my driving? so to speak. The focus today is The UK’s Low Carbon [...]

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The official Occupational Pensions Survey results are out today.  I’m sure great efforts have gone into making sure these are accurate, but they do not quite measure the right thing – or at least will be used as a measure of something they are not. Inevitably they will be used to fuel the attack on [...]

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The Times Diary reports a new City fad:
“An organisation is trying to organise “flash sushi” parties, at which you get to eat raw fish off naked women’s bodies. You pay your fee and only 24 hours beforehand do you learn where the party is taking place. This is the done thing among very rich Japanese, [...]

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Anyone who watched the BBC’s engaging documentary about Warren Buffet on Monday night would have been struck by his refreshing views on tax.  Buffet has made himself into one of the very richest men in the world by ignoring Wall Street fads and hysteria.  Instead he has invested big and long in companies he understands with managers he [...]

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Work does not guarantee a route out of poverty JRF study shows
Professor Ian Cole, the project director, commented: "Having followed the lives of a range of people living in deprived neighbourhoods, it becomes clear that work at any price, is not necessarily a route out of poverty. Many people have to juggle low [...]

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Radical reforms to the tax system are needed to meet our climate change targets, shifting the tax burden from labour (income tax, NI) to carbon emissions, according to the Green Fiscal Commission. Launching the report, Commission chair Prof Paul Edkins called it a “tax shift, not a tax increase.”
Welcome though these ideas are,  they involved unresolved [...]

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George Osborne has called for a cap on bonuses in retail banks of £2,000 with any balance paid in shares that have to be held for at least three years. The Evening Standard has a good round up of the reaction, which seems universally hostile.

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What workers want from the Commonwealth
Brendan Barber has a post up at The Commonwealth Conversation, highlighting what the TUC want to see from next month's Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM).

Bonuses under the cosh – so bosses take bigger salaries?
And this is Management Today!

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