(1/2) Today is 'Cost of Rent Day' for Londoners - the point in the year when private renters have, on average, handed over five months of their income just to cover rent.
no one shows more chronically online behaviour than your friend who despises their job but has no choice but to stay there because the job market is so shitty
The whole point of a minimum wage is to set the lowest pay someone can earn and still afford a basic standard of living. If a full-time worker can’t cover essentials like rent and food, then the minimum wage has failed at the very job it was created to do.
Colombia's evangelical churches all campaigned for far-right candidate Espriella, who is openly atheist.
Evangelical Chrisitianity is not a religion, it's a psychological operation (funded by US) to turn Latin Americans into slaves. Why are churches allowed foreign funding?
The UK's core economic crisis is simple: millions of people are working, yet lack enough disposable income to drive demand, save, invest or build security. An economy cannot thrive when so many are permanently on the edge.
If wages across large parts of the economy had kept pace with housing and living costs over the last 25 years, millions would be better off today. The uncomfortable truth is that many businesses have benefited from the gap while workers have absorbed the cost.
Explaining to children that they shouldn't worry about a career because the world will be completely unlivable in 15 years and that death will be a sweet relief from living in a nuclear wasteland is probably the hardest part of working at Build-A-Bear.
Wow:
A striking 84% of proposed UK data centres are being built in regions already officially classified by the Environment Agency as "seriously water-stressed.
These centres have to be stopped.
Jewish councillor Martin Abrams was previously suspended by Lambeth Labour for calling for a ceasefire during the genocide in Gaza
He defected to the Greens - accusing LP colleagues of "pandering to the far right”
This evening he's elected Lambeth Council Leader for the Greens.