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Hard-pressed workers already struggling in low-paid jobs will be worst hit by the Con-Dems' brutal benefit cuts, the TUC warned yesterday.
Of 43 welfare changes made since 2010, 34 battered working people - including cuts to child tax credits, housing benefit and disability benefit.
"For all the government's rhetoric about targeting scroungers, the truth is that welfare cuts are hurting low-paid working families more than anyone else," stormed TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady.
We cannot refuse to abolish the unjustifiable two-child benefit cap that pushes children into poverty while finding billions of pounds for defence spending — the membership and the public expect better from Labour, writes JON TRICKETT MP
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
In the current climate, it is vital to bust the myths and put forward the case for a humane and decent social security system that supports people, argues FRAN HEATHCOTE