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Sustainability: How to improve local bus services

8 May 2014

Although growth has finally returned to the economy, millions of families are feeling no recovery at all as they face huge pressure on household budgets. We have set out Labour's plans to deal with rip off prices in the energy...

Sustainability: Food for thought

8 May 2014

The global population is growing, urbanising and becoming richer. We demand more resource-intensive foods, but the planet remains finite. The current imbalance between supply and demand is making food production increasingly unpredictable. The production systems we most rely on in...

Sustainability: Local transport - not the poor relation

7 May 2014

Local journeys are the nuts and bolts of our lives. Whether for work or leisure, nearly everything we do relies on decent local transport. We want trains and buses to be convenient, affordable and on-time, and roads and pavements to...

Sustainability: The green economy

7 May 2014

Before the 2010 election the Conservatives’ policy rebranding included ‘The low carbon economy - security, stability and green growth’. It laid claim to “A vision of a different Britain...of a Britain which leads the world in new green technologies ...a...

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Work and Business: Legal aid on the line

6 May 2014

Workers’ rights have been seriously eroded since the coalition government came to power. It is now much harder for someone to challenge unfair employment practices or discrimination at an Employment Tribunal (ET). It is also getting much harder to get...

Work and Business: Radical action on top pay

2 May 2014

Since we were established in 2012, the High Pay Centre has tried to put evidence and analysis at the centre of the emotive debate about top pay. We want to identify how Government policy on the growing pay gap can...

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