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Hard-pressed workers already struggling in low-paid jobs will be worst hit by the Con-Dems' brutal benefit cuts, the TUC warned yesterday.
Of 43 welfare changes made since 2010, 34 battered working people - including cuts to child tax credits, housing benefit and disability benefit.
"For all the government's rhetoric about targeting scroungers, the truth is that welfare cuts are hurting low-paid working families more than anyone else," stormed TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady.
We cannot refuse to abolish the unjustifiable two-child benefit cap that pushes children into poverty while finding billions of pounds for defence spending — the membership and the public expect better from Labour, writes JON TRICKETT MP
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
In the current climate, it is vital to bust the myths and put forward the case for a humane and decent social security system that supports people, argues FRAN HEATHCOTE
RICHARD BURGON MP points to the recent relative success of widespread opposition to the Labour leadership’s regressive policies as the blueprint for exacting the changes required to build a fairer society