Radical Statistics Journal - special issue on the government’s emergency budget and spending review

Listed below are the contents from the Radical Statistics Journal released by the Radical Statistics Group on Wednesday 10th November.

More details of the Radical Statistics group can be found at:  http://www.radstats.org.uk.  The Journal is available by subscription (£25 a year) – details on the website. 
Issue 103 will be published on the website in several weeks time.

Inequality, austerity and the crash
Stewart Lansley
By accentuating inequality, the cuts will also increase the future risk of economic turbulence
The government is reshaping the statistics to tell its story.  We can read the same figures differently  
Page 4

The distributional impact of the 2010 Spending Review
Tim Horton and Howard Reed
The effect of the cuts is very regressive  
Page 13

The Spending Review and Public Sector Jobs
Richard Exell
Cutting public services is not the way to fairness  
Page 25

Impacts on Wales
Robert Moore
Wales to be especially badly hit by CSR cuts  
Page 35

Cutting Social Security
Paul Spicker
The cuts in social security won’t do what the government hopes; they’ll be back for more. 
Page 40

The unkindest cuts: the impact on older people
Jay Ginn
Pensioners have not really been protected; they will be hit, too
The planned universal state pension is welcome but pensioners need it now - to reduce pensioner poverty and to end means testing
Page 49

From Witney to Wigan - how national changes to welfare benefit rules have a differential impact on local communities
Alan Franco
The areas with the greatest needs are going to suffer  
Page 58 (copy of this article attached)

The cuts are the wrong answer
John Grieve Smith
There are different ways to cut the deficit, if that’s what we want to do. 
Page 64