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Supermarket staff 'live in poverty' 19 January 2012

The Fair Pay Network has criticised the four largest supermarket chains - Tesco, Sainsburys, Asda and Morrisons - for paying their front-line staff less than the living wage. In a report just published, the Network claims that on average workers... Read more...

Government and Opposition promise limits on top pay 11 January 2012

The Prime Minister has spoken out against excessive salaries, especially for 'failure'. Research from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) suggests chief executives in 87 of the FTSE 100 companies took home an average of £5.1m in basic pay,... Read more...

Tower Hamlets 'worst area for child poverty in UK' 10 January 2012

The End Child Poverty campaign has published a map of child poverty in the UK, which pinpoints the London Borough of Tower Hamlets as the area with the highest rate. More than half of children in the borough (52%) are... Read more...

"800,000 houses unaffordable under housing benefit changes" 9 January 2012

Research carried out by the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) for the Guardian newspaper has analysed the impact of changes to the Local Housing Allowance - the amount of housing benefit payable to low income households renting privately. CIH concluded... Read more...

London's new Housing Strategy out for consultation 14 December 2011

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, this week put out a draft new Housing Strategy for public consultation. Responses are sought by 6 March 2012. The revised Housing Strategy will replace the Mayor's first strategy published in February 2010, and... Read more...

Is fuel poverty worse in London? 8 December 2011

A new paper from the Greater London Authority suggests that fuel poverty may be higher in London than the national measure suggests. GLA Economics argues that the official Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) measure for fuel poverty underestimates... Read more...

British public attitudes to poverty harden 7 December 2011

The National Centre for Social Research's 28th annual British Social Attitudes report found increasing numbers blaming poverty on "laziness" - more than 1 in 4 of respondents, compared with 15% in the mid 1990s. A majority (54%) now believe that... Read more...

Huge fall in building of new affordable homes 28 November 2011

There has been a 99% reduction in the number of affordable homes in England funded by the the Homes and Communities Agency during the last few months as a result of the cuts announced in the government's spending review in... Read more...

'High pay at the top corrosive to the British economy' 28 November 2011

The High Pay Commission has published its final report, Cheques with Balances: Why tackling high pay is in the national interest. The report documents the disproportionate increases in remuneration which have concentrated wealth in the top 0.1% and away from... Read more...

Average incomes rising much less than inflation 24 November 2011

The median salary for a full-time worker in the UK rose 1.4% in 2011 to £26,244, against a headline Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation rate of 5% or higher, according to the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings from the... Read more...

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