Social policy experts call for educational, tax and pay reforms to beat economic slide Downward mobility – the phenomenon of children doing less well than their parents – will become… Read more »
Scheme introduced in 2012 has wiped fewer than 200 historical offences from criminal records A Home Office scheme designed to wipe historical convictions for consensual gay sex from people’s records… Read more »
First official statistics for Great Britain also reveal London has largest ethnic pay gap Workers of Pakistani or Bangladeshi heritage have the lowest median hourly pay of any ethnic group,… Read more »
Number in poverty rises to 8m, with 60% living in households where someone works Britain has seen a big jump in the working poor since the 1990s, with almost three… Read more »
‘I can’t recall such despair,’ says top pollster, and 72% of population fear divisions will get worse Britain is a more polarised and pessimistic nation than it has been for… Read more »
Exclusive: Charlotte Valeur says she will call for new laws if FTSE 350 firms don’t improve diversity The new chair of one of the UK’s most influential business groups has… Read more »
Editor’s Note: Technology, startups, entrepreneurship, unicorns, S-1s. Silicon Valley has created an economic engine unlike any other in the world over the past few decades. That success has come with… Read more »
Poorest areas bearing brunt of council spending cuts, according to thinktank analysis Austerity cuts have fallen hardest on deprived communities in the north of England, which are enduring the highest… Read more »
Bangladeshi firm that made charity Spice Girls T-shirts also works with major UK retailers Revealed: Spice Girls T-shirts made in factory paying staff 35p an hour Tesco, Marks & Spencer… Read more »
Charity calls for 1% wealth tax, saying it would raise enough to educate every child not in school The growing concentration of the world’s wealth has been highlighted by a… Read more »
Workers producing tops sold to raise money for Comic Relief receive far below a living wage ‘Inhuman conditions’: life in factory making Spice Girls T-shirts Spice Girls T-shirts sold to… Read more »
The Guardian’s Bias in Britain poll supplies concrete evidence for what ethnic minorities have known all along What does racial prejudice mean in Britain today? Is it, as one woman… Read more »
Study by IPPR finds combination of tax cuts and benefits freeze has widened inequality Millions of women in low-paid, part-time work will be among the main losers from tax and… Read more »