The economy
Fact checks about the economy, covering levels of inequality, prices, taxation, employment, unemployment and housing across the UK nations and regions
What's behind the Lib Dems' plans to tax universal benefits for pensioners?
Pensioners get free bus passes, prescriptions, a free tv licence and yearly winter fuel payments. The Lib Dems are now suggesting some of these should be taxed. We unpick the …
Read more…Is public spending in Scotland lower than the UK average?
First Minister Alex Salmond says that his country spends less - proportionally - on its welfare state than the UK and most other EU countries. So how does Scotland's spending …
Read more…Do Scots contribute more in taxes than the rest of the UK?
Alex Salmond, the leader of the Scottish National Party, insists that an independent Scotland would be 'better off' than if it remained in the Union. But is a 'yes' vote …
Read more…Can Labour-run councils take credit for building social housing?
According to Hilary Benn, in the next three years, Labour authorities will build five times as many social homes as Tory authorities. But is this a result of their policies …
Read more…More unemployed, but fewer on the dole: what the politicians missed in the jobless figures
We inspect statements made today by a Shadow Minister and a government minister and see how they blur the difference between the rise in unemployment and the decline in the …
Read more…The media management of benefit stats
Update: Since this piece was published, the head of the UK Statistics Authority, Andrew Dilnot has written to the Work and Pensions Secretary about his use of the benefit cap …
Read more…Would a household have to earn £41,000 to match a family on benefits?
As the household benefits cap begins its national rollout this week, the Conservative Party claims working families need to earn £41,000 to match the amounts some could claim on state …
Read more…What's happening to the Minimum Wage?
As the Government announces new rises to the National Minimum Wage, should low earners be pleased or peeved about the size of their wage packet?
Read more…The women in suits: how big is the gender bias in the City?
During the week that we remember the UK's only female Prime Minister, the Government said that its target of women representing at least 25% of company board members by 2015 …
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