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Thursday 3 July 2014

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Friday 20 June 2014

Friday, June 20, 2014 Posted by Jake Posted in
Harvested from: Office of National Statistics
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/2011-census/qualifications-and-labour-market-participation-in-england-and-wales/sty-qualifications-and-employment.html

Employment rates and most common occupations by highest level of qualification

Thursday 5 June 2014

Thursday, June 05, 2014 Posted by Jake Posted in ,
Recent governments, Tory and Labour, have used the true fact that the average salary in the public sector is higher than that in the private sector to justify the privatisation of public services. In November 2012 the Office of National Statistics produced a report and video politely debunking government claims that public sector staff are overpaid, providing statistical reasons for the overall higher average pay. We summarise the main points below:

a) Public sector jobs have a higher proportion of higher skill jobs. Just as in the private sector, higher skilled jobs attract higher pay.
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Thursday, June 05, 2014 Posted by Jake Posted in
The BBC managed to dig out data on the 'winners and losers' of HS2, using a Freedom of Information request. The raw data they found conceals just how big a winner London is by reporting "London Central" seperately from London West; London South West; London South East; London South/Croydon; London North East; London North.



Thursday, June 05, 2014 Posted by Jake Posted in
The number of hospital beds available has been dropping for decades.



Shortage of beds is compounded by shortage of staff. The Parliamentary Health Select Committee reported in July 2013

  • Only 17% of emergency departments were able to provide 16 hours of Consultant cover in a working day, and even worse than that during weekends.
  • "Emergency staffing at all levels is under strain and a 50% fill rate of trainees is now resulting in a shortfall of senior trainees and future consultants"
Thursday, June 05, 2014 Posted by Jake Posted in
The data below is from the OECD's "Education at a glance, 2012" report, which looks at and compares the education systems in the OECD countries.

For both primary and secondary schools up to GCSE, class sizes in England are among the largest in the OECD.


Monday 2 June 2014

Monday, June 02, 2014 Posted by Jake Posted in
Over 800,000 new Housing Benefit claims have been made since 2008 with 3 in 4 of those claims made by people in work. The government says it's making work pay yet falling real wages and soaring housing costs are pushing more working people into poverty. At the same time the cost of housing benefit continues to increase at a dramatic rate.


Tuesday 13 May 2014

Tuesday, May 13, 2014 Posted by Jake Posted in ,
Data from the Paris School of Economics show that average income for the lower 90% of Britons has stagnated in real terms for decades.

Paris School of Economics http://g-mond.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/topincomes/

Tuesday, May 13, 2014 Posted by Jake No comments Posted in
Increases in Personal Allowances don't help those on the lowest wages: those who already earn less than the personal allowance.

Tuesday, May 13, 2014 Posted by Jake No comments
The number of unemployed and underemployed in the UK is grossly understated by the top-level unemployment figures.

Tuesday, May 13, 2014 Posted by Jake No comments
Energy companies have used 'wholesale price rises' as the standard excuse for hiking our fuel bills. Data released by OFGEM since late in 2013 reveals this to have been untrue. Finally, in 2013, NPower admitted as much in its annual report.

Tuesday, May 13, 2014 Posted by Jake No comments Posted in
Bosses make a big thing about giving up their bonuses. The sight of them 'giving up' hundreds of thousands of pounds is meant to quell public anger at pay for failure. The reality is even these hundreds of thousands only make up a small fraction of these people's incomes.

Saturday 10 May 2014

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A graph from the 2013 British Social Attitudes (BSA) Survey shows fewer than 1 in 10 Britons have wanted this in the 30 years since 1983. More than 90% have consistently wanted the level of tax & spend to remain the same or to increase.



Friday 9 May 2014

Friday, May 09, 2014 Posted by Jake Posted in
Go through the following helpful hints, and add a video comment to this post yourself:

  • First, go down to the very bottom of this post and click on 'comments'. 

  •  Now you must copy the following html into the comment box:
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  • Click on 'Embed video'

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Thursday 1 May 2014

Thursday, May 01, 2014 Posted by Jake Posted in ,

All "Election 2015" Posts: 

Highlighted Posts:
  1. Impact of the HS2 rail line on regional economies


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