Red WeeklyRed Weekly No. 109, 10 July 1975EVEN WORSE THAN LAST
Red Weekly No. 109, 10 July 1975 · p. 3 of the scan · 145 words
The scan: rw-no109-jul-10-1975.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)
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page 3 of the scan
the proportion of interest rose overall from 79 per cent of all income from rents to 89 per cent. of office the number of unemployed climbed from 340,000 to 551,000. the same time Harold Wilson was exhorting workers to raise production and to work more efficiently. explain that the increase of nearly 200,000 in the unemployment figures represented a loss of 45 million working days a year.
Poverty line
By 1971 the Child Poverty Action Group recorded the progress made in abolishing poverty. It calculated that one in six children in Britain lived below the poverty line.
From 1966 to 1970 the number of people living at or below the Supplementary Benefit level doubled. But at the Other end of the conla all rampinod ol share.
In the first five years of Labour's period At He neglected to added and the privileged!