The scandal of low-paid care workers
Gavin Kelly and Joe Coward
This post originally appeared on the New Statesman blog
A friend who is a care worker employed by an agency has a moan to me about her work. Repeated 15 minute slots with a client followed by a frantic dash to another part of the city she lives in to do the same again. Care in a hurry, on the cheap. Welcome to home care for growing numbers in Britain: some of our most vulnerable people cared for by a growing number of overly stretched and underpaid workers.
Changing the conversation in 2012
Gavin Kelly
The post first appeared on Gavin Kelly's New Statesman blog.
Low growth, high unemployment, deeper cuts, falling wages, and a further reduction in the living standards of working families. Just in case you were under any doubt, 2012 is going to feel like one long Groundhog Day, a darker version of its grim predecessor.
There will, of course, be many new twists and turns. But the raw material of the economy-driven news cycle is likely to have a certain haunting familiarity, even if it is far harder to predict the political ramifications and Westminster winners and losers.
Women’s work – an opportunity for growth we can’t afford to pass up
James Plunkett
This post originally appeared on Left Foot Forward
As economic forecasts continue to head south, it’s worth pausing to ask a simple question:
Where exactly do we expect future growth in living standards to come from – even once a recovery takes hold?
The list of possible answers to that question isn’t long. In fact, when it comes to household income growth, there are effectively four:
• Pay could grow faster than inflation
• We could all work longer hours
• More of us could work; or
• The state could get more generous
Why Britain's households got richer - and why they stopped
Gavin Kelly
This post first appeared on Gavin Kelly's New Statesman blog.
Before there is any prospect of shaking the economic pessimism that has engulfed the country we need first to alight upon a credible account of how working families will boost their living standards in the years ahead.
At the moment no-one is mapping out this course to a more prosperous future; but more surprising, perhaps, is the fact that we don't really know how it is that households got richer over the recent past.
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