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Published in: Home: OpinionI’ve never been on strike before. Here’s why today was different
OPINION: I’m walking out in solidarity with colleagues, even though I have my own problems as a freelancer
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Published in: Home: OpinionI’ve been an NHS nurse for 15 years. Here’s why I’m going on strike
OPINION: As nurses strike, the Tories must start paying them fairly to save the NHS from collapse
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Published in: Home: NewsA crisis in a crisis: How charity workers are struggling to make ends meet
Those responsible for helping the UK’s most vulnerable say they are having to turn to food banks
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Published in: Home: Feature‘What else can we cut out?’ Parents struggle with crippling childcare fees
Parents in England tell openDemocracy of remortgaging homes or taking on second jobs to pay for rising childcare fees
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Published in: Home: NewsGlobal food companies pay shareholders £15bn as millions face poverty
Exclusive: World’s biggest food giants made £20bn in profits – while warning of price rises to come
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Published in: Home: NewsDelay in ‘no fault’ evictions ban leaves 48,000 households facing homelessness
The Tories pledged to end section 21 evictions in 2019. Tens of thousands have paid the price for their slow progress
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Published in: Home: FeatureI went to a landlords’ conference during a housing crisis. Here’s what I found
With a key tenants’ rights bill set to go before MPs, what is going through the minds of the UK’s property class?
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Published in: Home: NewsRevealed: Housing associations urged ministers to let them increase rents
Representatives of housing associations including Clarion, Peabody, L&Q and Optivo met and wrote to ministers over the summer
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Published in: Home: NewsPrivate renters will face ‘winter of hardship’ after autumn statement
Campaigners had urged the government to cap private rents alongside social rents, which will be limited to a 7% rise
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionWe need a feminist economic alternative to Sunak and Hunt’s plans
OPINION: Prioritising profit over people has disproportionately affected women and girls. It shouldn’t be this way
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Published in: ourEconomy: VideoEmpire not only made the colonies. It made the unequal Britain we see today
openDemocracy’s new film BOOMERANG, exploring the legacies of empire through Liverpool’s docks, is available online
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Published in: Home: NewsBlack nurses tell of double hit from pay discrimination and cost of living
Institutional racism has led to Black nurses being stuck in low pay bands and left with no choice but to take second jobs
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Published in: Home: FeatureCost of living crisis forcing asylum seekers to ration food as prices soar
Exclusive: Banned from working, asylum seekers say their £40 a week is not stretching as far amid rising food costs
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Published in: Home: AnalysisCost of living crisis could be fatal for people with serious health conditions
Incurable illnesses often come with hidden costs – and disproportionately affect the poorest in society
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Published in: ourEconomy: VideoHow legacies of empire are breaking Britain’s economy
openDemocracy’s new film BOOMERANG stars Kojo Koram and footballer John Barnes. Here’s how to watch
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Published in: Home: FeatureGrassroots group priced out of once-derelict building it rescued in 2011
To the people who use it, Marsh House is a vital resource. But with public funds scarce, its future is now in doubt
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Published in: Home: OpinionIn just 44 days, Liz Truss has made the UK immeasurably worse
OPINION: The PM’s legacy will be one of a tanking pound, soaring inflation, and a seemingly inevitably recession
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe UK needs a ‘right to food’. This is how it could work in practice
As prices and inflation soar, we must rethink our global food systems to help people, not boost corporate profits
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Published in: Home: NewsPensions accused of fuelling cost of living hike by gambling on food prices
At least two major UK pension schemes are investing in commodities that are central to the cost of living crisis
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Published in: ourEconomy: AnalysisWhenever capitalism gets into crisis, it’s women’s bodies on the line
From witch hunts to overturning Roe v Wade, violence against women is at the heart of our economic operating system