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05.11.25 - 01:18
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Fixing Britain′s worklessness crisis will cost employers £6bn a year, report says (The Guardian)
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The Keep Britain Working review, created to tackle the rising tide of ill health pushing millions out of work, reported its findings ahead of this month's budgetEmployers have been told in a landmark government review that fixing Britain's health-related worklessness crisis will require them to spend £6bn a year on support for their staff.In a major report before this month's budget, Charlie Mayfield warned that businesses needed to play a more central role in tackling a rising tide of ill-health that is pushing millions of people out of work. Continue reading......
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04.11.25 - 22:30
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The Guardian view on Europe′s housing crisis: time for the EU to get radical | Editorial (The Guardian)
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Soaring rents and mortages are undermining the social fabric of member states. A coming Brussels plan for affordable housing must be boldAn entrenched housing crisis was one of the dominant themes in last week's Dutch election, and it is not hard to understand why. House prices in the Netherlands have doubled in the past decade, and a new-build home costs 16 times the average salary. Across the EU, affordability is not just a life-limiting problem in notoriously expensive property markets such as Lisbon, Madrid or Dublin. Speculative investment and a chronic supply shortage have also led to soaring prices in emerging areas where bigger, faster returns are attainable.Belatedly, this pan-European pattern is to be addressed by a Europe-wide response. Socialist MEPs made action on housing a condition of their continued support for the two-term European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen. Next month, Brussels will publish its first affordable housing plan, which will target the destructive growth of t...
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