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BRITISH children have the hardest struggle to escape poverty through work in the developed world, TUC researchers said yesterday.
The country’s dismal record on social mobility means that many people’s lives are determined by their parents’ income rather than their own efforts.
Along with Italy, Britain has the joint-highest level of earnings persistence — the extent to which people’s incomes are associated with those of their parents.
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
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In 2024, 19 households grew richer by $1 trillion while 66 million households shared 3 per cent of wealth in the US, validating Marx’s prediction that capitalism ‘establishes an accumulation of misery corresponding with accumulation of capital,’ writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY