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Unions try to mislead taxpayers over the public sector pay premium
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has today published a report showing the difference in the average hourly pay of public and private sector workers. It shows that the pay gap was around 8 per cent in 2011, with the public sector coming off better. It is staggering that, despite the desperate need to reduce [...] Read the rest of this entry »
FullFact look at who benefits the most from an increase in the personal allowance
Recently the Online Journalism blog produced two graphs – one we produced for the Guido Fawkes blog and another produced by the IFS – with one suggesting that increasing the personal allowance was progressive – benefiting those on low incomes most – and another that it was regressive – benefiting those on high incomes most. [...] Read the rest of this entry »
FullFact look at who benefits the most from an increase in the personal allowance
Recently the Online Journalism blog produced two graphs – one we produced for the Guido Fawkes blog and another produced by the IFS – with one suggesting that increasing the personal allowance was progressive – benefiting those on low incomes most – and another that it was regressive – benefiting those on high incomes most. [...] Read the rest of this entry »
Union myths unravelling
Following up on our release yesterday confronting union myths, and TPA Research Director John O’Connell’s blog for this site, I wrote for the Spectator Coffee House about the TUC using a poll which showed the public had a good idea of the value of normal public sector pensions to try and sell their misleading average [...] Read the rest of this entry »
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