Rishi Sunak’s government is hiding £28bn of “stealth cuts” to public services over the next five years, according to a report from the New Economics Foundation, warning that a renewed austerity drive at next month’s budget would further damage the economy.

#UKPolitics #Austerity #PublicServices #Economics #NewEconomicsFoundation #TUC #RishiSunak #Budget2023

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/27/uk-government-is-hiding-28bn-of-stealth-cuts-to-public-services-says-report

43% of households - 30 million people - will be unable to afford a decent standard of living by 2024

That includes almost 90% of single parents & 50% of workers with children

This is truly horrific

Do you think a #LivingIncome the best way to address this? That’s the #NewEconomicsFoundation proposal - v interesting

#UKPolitics #CostOfLivingCrisis #Poverty #EnoughIsEnough

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/12/30-million-in-uk-priced-out-of-decent-standard-of-living-by-2024

Tech your pick: New rules for online advertising https://youtu.be/SrdAHkt8Hbg?t=122
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=SrdAHkt8Hbg

Interesting discussion with an author of the recent #NewEconomicsFoundation report making the case that contextual advertisements work and a representative of #DigitalContentNext, a trade organization of digital publishers.

Sounded like we could get the publishers on our side. They are fed up with being squeezed and abused by the online advertisement monopolies.

#Media #DigitalPublishing #Google