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Minister finally admits that working-age benefits spending is stable, despite months of ‘spiralling’ claims
and suggested that the government needed to cut spending on PIP, even though disabled people were only claiming it because they were struggling due to the cost-of-living crisis.
– Disability News Service

Minister finally admits that working-age benefits spending is stable, despite months of ‘spiralling’ claims
A minister has finally admitted that spending on working-age benefits is stable, and is not spiralling out of control, despite months of claims from his own department and fellow ministers. Sir Ste…

A 1980s cost-of-living crisis gave Australia a thriving arts program – could we do it again? https://theconversation.com/a-1980s-cost-of-living-crisis-gave-australia-a-thriving-arts-program-could-we-do-it-again…

A 1980s cost-of-living crisis gave Australia a thriving arts program – could we do it again?
Four decades ago, amid a cost-of-living crisis, rising unemployment and stagnant wages, a unique partnership between artists and trade unions thrived.

The son of living legend Ugandan political scientist Mahmood #Mamdani could become the next mayor of #NYC (Democrat polling today)
Not all is lost!
https://www.

Zohran for NYC
Zohran Mamdani is running for Mayor to lower the cost of living for working class New Yorkers.

The global economy is projected to slow sharply this year
as Trump’s trade policy disrupts international commerce and increases economic uncertainty,
the World Bank said on Tuesday in a report that underscores the toll of America’s trade war.
Despite the weakening outlook, the global economy is not expected to fall into a recession, the World Bank said.
However, the trade tension is setting the stage for the weakest decade of growth since the 1960s.
Economic dev…

World Bank Forecast Underscores Cost of U.S. Trade War
Along with a sharply downgraded projection for global output this year, it urged a “course correction” on trade to help preserve living standards.

SIGN THE PETITION: PROTECT HUMAN RIGHTS. STOP BILL C-2
Prime Minister Mark Carney ran a campaign on leading Canada through Trump’s tariffs & attacks on sovereignty & a cost-of-living crisis. Instead, his first piece of legislation, Bill C-2, is an attack on migrants & privacy rights straight out of the Trump playbook.
Bill C-2 drastically restricts refugee protection, allows for mass deportations & gives security officials unchecked power to access everyone’s data…

SIGN THE PETITION: PROTECT HUMAN RIGHTS. STOP BILL C-2 - Leadnow

Important, informative thread re farmworker pay.
#agriculture

Important, informative thread re farmworker pay.
#agriculture

Canadians are working past retirement, but not because they want to | CBC Radio
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/costofliving/canadians-retirement-inflation-1.6868937

📈 Zohran Mamdani Is Proposing Green Abundance for the Many
#politics

Zohran Mamdani Is Proposing Green Abundance for the Many
The New York City mayoral campaign of Zohran Mamdani is focused on lowering the cost of living. It can serve as a blueprint for progressives seeking to embed climate action in real improvements for working peoples’ everyday lives.

The last contracts barely went over the inflation rate over the term and didn't even make up the difference of inflation that had been lost over the previous 20 YEARS.
ie. It didn't even touch the cost of living since the pandemic.
And now the BC Government thinks it's going to go back to lower-than-inflation raises with 0.5% and 1%?
Not gonna fly. More people than ever are living paycheque to paycheque.
#BCPoli #Unions #Affordability #BCGEU #CUPE #Teachers #University #FPSE #BCTF
https://www.quesnelobserver.com/news/bc-offers-public-sector-unions-35-per-cent-over-2-years-8090664?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

$3.3 trillion of debt being handed to future generations to make billionaires richer.
Higher cost of living, drained government benefits & fewer economic opportunities on the world stage...
...for our kids.
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4ibal

I am officially "homeless"... Had to sell my apartment because of runaway cost increases, and today the new owner officially took it over. Currently living partly in a borrowed house, and partially couch surfing, while trying to find out what to do next... I am strongly considering just packing up everything and moving to South America. Brazil is nice, and so is the Caribbean...