Steve Jobs working for the TUC?

Adam Lent

Given that the team here have been working pretty relentlessly on the crisis in the labour market for the last year, I couldn’t help but feel a small twinge of pride at the fact that 10% of the population seem to subconsciously assume that the boss of Apple must work for the TUC.  By this logic, of course, Alan Sugar owns Tate and Lyle and Stuart Rose runs Interflora!

30 per cent fear redundancy

Nigel Stanley

Homelessness charity St Mungos have commissioned a poll from MORI looking at public attitudes to long term unemployment. Here are some highlights: Read more »

Fawcett poll on equal pay

Nigel Stanley

According to an IPSOS-MORI poll (pdf) for the Fawcett Society, a narrow majority of men think that we have a fair pay system while a bigger majority of women disagree.

But when prompted with the size of the pay gap, both men and women want to close it and back equal pay audits.

Public wary of Conservative deficit reduction plans

Nigel Stanley

I missed a poll that the BBC’s Daily Politics show commissioned last week (full results pdf).

It does not show overwhelming support for George Osborne’s deficit reduction package. Here are some of the results: Read more »

What voters think about cuts

Nigel Stanley

For much of the media the only question is how big spending cuts should be and how quickly they should happen.

Many economists disagree. And now we know that voters are sceptical too.

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