{"id":1205,"date":"2014-09-09T16:07:48","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T15:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2014-09-09T16:07:48","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T15:07:48","slug":"pushed-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=1205","title":{"rendered":"Pushed into poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Speaking passionately about the cost of living crisis that is pushing the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s working class into poverty, Unite delegate Liz McInnes warned conference that the government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s austerity regime is \u00e2\u20ac\u015bdriving down the living standards of ordinary people.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The debate questioned the supposed economic recovery, arguing this has yet to reach the vast majority of people who are struggling to survive in Tory Britain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe slow improvement in headline GDP is a product of more people working longer hours for less pay,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 Liz said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOur public services are being hacked back and our social security system dismantled. Poverty is growing and insecure work increases as trade unions are attacked and employment rights eroded.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt is not simply that we have been unlucky to experience all of these calamities at once \u00e2\u20ac\u201c they are a direct result of the policies purses by this Tory-led government.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speakers were ardent in their disgust with the regime that has engulfed so many working families into poverty and voted unanimously to carry the cost of living crisis composite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking passionately about the cost of living crisis that is pushing the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s working class into poverty, Unite delegate Liz McInnes warned conference that the government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s austerity regime is \u00e2\u20ac\u015bdriving down the living standards of ordinary people.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 &nbsp; The debate questioned the supposed economic recovery, arguing this has yet to reach the vast majority of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[85],"wps_subtitle":"Recovery yet to reach most people","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1208,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions\/1208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}