Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Cuts Kill
Slashing welfare benefits and governmental spending by 25% could cause up to 38,000 extra deaths according to new research. Read more here. Also, the TUC shows that the Lib Con budget will result in Britain's poorest 10% suffering a 21.7% cut in their incomes while the richest 10% will suffer a cut of just 3.6%. So much for the 'progressive budget'.
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