The meaning of the F-word: The cuts
Frances O’Grady, TUC deputy secretary
By Frances O'Grady Published 08 March 2012
The defining issue of the government is its programme of deep spending cuts. With female joblessness at a 25-year high and women shouldering over 70 per cent of the Budget cuts, it's clear that they're being made to pay for the financial crash. Women have been the UK's greatest economic success story in the past 50 years. Any government searching for growth ignores them at its peril.
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