Food stalled
Eat all, sup all, pay nowt – it’s the Yorkshire creed but it’s hard to keep to in the county’s poorest quarters. Megan Blake, helps bring home the snap. For …
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Government accused of ignoring crisis as rough sleeper numbers surge in London
The number of rough sleepers in the capital has risen by nearly a fifth in the past year, according new Greater London Authority data. 8,855 rough sleepers were recorded by outreach …
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Half Of 20-Somethings Say Money Pressures Impact Their Mental Health
The joint HuffPost UK-BBC Radio 5 Live poll found 30% of people in their 20s have no savings at all. The majority of young people in their 20s say money …
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Mass pollution at Texas coal plants poses major threat to human health and the environment
Virtually every coal power plant in Texas is leaking pollution into nearby groundwater, imperiling the environment and the health of neighboring communities, according to new data analysis released this week. …
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Friends of the Earth is taking legal action against the government in a bid to overturn the decision to build a third runway at Heathrow. Tuesday (15th January) sees the …
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The Foundational Economy
Privatisation, market choice, outsourcing: these are the watchwords that have shaped policy in numerous democratic states in the last generation. These were claimed to provide more efficient services so we …
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The right chemistry
“Do we have anything for a serious case of chronic CEO?” Boots was the most trusted brand for decades – Victorian values and all. Now it has slipped down the …
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The NHS is a society rather than an economy
If markets or management aren’t the remedy to the NHS mess, what is? Valerie Iles sees an answer coming from unexpected quarters. In the previous issue of Mint Magazine Laurie …
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Health economics: a prognosis
Is established thinking in economics up to the challenges presented by healthcare provision? Geoffrey M. Hodgson conducts and examination. “Health economics would seem to be a perfect topic for heterodox …
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There has always been an alternative
The NHS crisis is a crisis of neoliberalism writes Laurie Laybourn-Langton This year, the National Health Service turns seventy, finding itself in a world radically different to that which welcomed …
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