Labour List| Sovereign equity can revolutionise financing of the UK’s assets
Chris Cook makes a very interesting suggestion for funding public works

Unemployment should be at the heart of the election debate
Richard has a guest post at Left Foot Forward, arguing that unemployment is the test of political ethics. How high a priority do politicians give it?

George [...]

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BBC iPlayer – Jobless
Not the programme about unemployed famous people – this is an extremely poignant documentary about the harsh realities of unemployment for family life.

Anti-Slavery Home Alone End Domestic Slavery
A new anti-slavery campaign to end domestic slavery and create an ILO convention to protect domestic workers worldwide.

Jeffrey Sachs backs the Robin Hood tax
A short [...]

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Paul Mason: Sterling panic = cage fight: markets vs the state (and the Robin Hood tax)
Sterling plummets to $1.47. Cue orchestrated panic in sections of the press. Analysts bombard me with e-mails saying the currency is “facing the abyss”. Highly paid economists weigh in to remind the government – current and incoming – to slash [...]

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Why does the UK need Robin?
Ben Morgan of Oxfam's UK Poverty Programme highlights just why the cash that the Robin Hood Tax would generate for use in the UK is so desperately needed.

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Left Foot Forwards: Public turned off by ‘age of austerity’
Forty per cent of people were more concerned that state services would be cut back too deeply. Meanwhile, only twenty five per cent said that their greater fear was that the deficit would not be tackled with sufficient speed.

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A Wednesday morning musical treat for you. Here at ToUChstone, we’re big fans of Jonathan Mann, a very talented US singer/songwriter, whose innovative solution to recession-imposed unemployment was to start writing a new song every (yes, every) day, making money from commissions, downloads, ringtones, anything (a kind of “weddings, parties, bar mitzvahs anything 2.0″).
As he’s [...]

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The Independent View: The Robin Hood Tax
Owen has a guest post on the case for a financial transaction tax at Lib Dem Voice

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BBC white-washes Geoffrey Howe’s record on unemployment
Paul Cotterill at Liberal Conspiracy pulls the Beeb up on their recent political history

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Underemployment in the UK labour market
ONS’s recent analysis of underemployment and the impact of the recession

Daily Mail: Alex Brummer: Cynical and shameless: Quite simply, Britain’s bankers …
We weren’t very happy with Alex Brummer’s recent New Statesman piece on pensions, but this is splendid stuff from today’s Daily Mail

Britain’s Deficit – Paul Krugman Blog – NYTimes.com
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350 economists call for a financial transaction tax
An open letter to the G20 in favour of the Robin Hood Tax, signed by 350 economists from across 35 countries.

Tax Research UK: What a load of sabre rattling
Mark Lee, a former chair of the Tax Faculty at the Institute of Chartered Accountants, pooh-poohs the idea that big [...]

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