#livingstandards — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #livingstandards, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/951533/ Britain to lose 163,000 jobs amid Iran war fallout – with two UK regions hit the hardest #BankOfEngland #Banks #Business #Economy #EnergyBills #HumberInc #Iran #JobLosses #LivingStandards #MiddleEast #PriceRises #redundancy #UK #unemployment #UnitedKingdom
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https://www.europesays.com/britain/33231/ Britain to lose 163,000 jobs amid Iran war fallout – with two UK regions hit the hardest #BankOfEngland #Banks #Britain #EnergyBills #HumberInc #Iran #JobLosses #LivingStandards #MiddleEast #PriceRises #redundancy #unemployment
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Lower speed limits to avoid £8billion cost of Iran war, think tank suggests
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/iran-war-inflation-tax-economy-37117852
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FALLING BEHIND: Wales’s jobs gap with the rest of the UK has widened again — and wages are lagging too, new research finds
Wales has fallen further behind the rest of the UK on jobs, pay and living standards, according to a major new independent report published today — with the employment gap that narrowed during the 2000s and 2010s now wider than at any point since before the last financial crisis.
The findings come from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, one of the UK’s leading independent economic research organisations, in a briefing paper published as part of a series specifically examining the Welsh economy ahead of next month’s Senedd election.
The headline finding is stark. Wales’s employment rate for 16 to 64-year-olds stands at around 71%, compared to 75% in the rest of the UK — a gap of approximately four percentage points. That gap had been narrowed significantly in the decade leading up to the pandemic, falling to around two percentage points in the second half of the 2010s. But Wales’s employment rate fell more sharply after Covid-19 than the rest of the UK, and has not recovered at the same pace, reopening the divide.
As Swansea Bay News has previously reported, Wales already has the lowest employment rate of any UK nation and the highest economic inactivity rate in Great Britain — with nearly one in four working-age adults not in work and not looking for a job. The IFS findings add independent academic weight to a trend already visible in national statistics.
On pay, the picture is similarly challenging. Welsh workers earned a median monthly wage of £2,401 in 2025 — around 5% below the UK median. That gap has narrowed only marginally over the past decade, from just over 6% in 2015. The mean pay gap is even wider at 16%, reflecting the fact that Wales has relatively few high earners, both because of the shape of its economy and because Welsh employers tend to host fewer of the highest-paid roles within any given sector.
The pay divide between Wales and the rest of the UK is almost twice as large in the private sector as in the public sector. That imbalance has a striking consequence: public sector workers in Wales out-earn private sector workers of the same age, sex, education and experience — the reverse of the pattern seen across England as a whole.
Those lower wages, combined with lower employment, feed directly into household incomes. Median household net incomes in Wales are nearly 6% lower than the UK average. The gap is present across the entire income distribution but is largest at the top — 4% lower at the tenth percentile, widening to 13% lower at the ninetieth. Lower housing costs in Wales provide only partial relief, according to the IFS.
Jed Michael, one of the report’s authors and a research economist at the IFS, said the data presented a clear challenge for whoever forms the next Welsh Government. “After catching up during the first two decades of the 21st century, more recent data suggest Wales’s employment rate has fallen behind the rest of the UK,” he said. “When combined with lower earnings, this lower employment rate means both lower average household incomes and a slightly higher poverty rate than the UK as a whole — despite lower housing costs.”
Michael added that the structure of Welsh devolution limited the tools available to address poverty directly. “The Welsh Government has limited control over benefits, which are generally the most direct way to boost the income of low-income households,” he said, pointing to employment, productivity and earnings as the levers that must be pulled instead.
The report also notes that improving the employment picture would not only raise living standards but directly benefit the Welsh Government’s own finances — through higher devolved income tax revenues and lower spending on devolved benefits such as the council tax reduction scheme.
The findings landed immediately in the election campaign. Samuel Kurtz MS, Welsh Conservative Shadow Cabinet Secretary for the Economy, said the report confirmed “what people across Wales already feel.” He said: “Fewer people in work, lower wages, and living standards lagging behind the rest of the UK. The Welsh Conservatives have a clear and credible plan to get Wales working — cutting taxes, backing businesses, and creating the conditions for higher wages and more jobs.”
The IFS report is the fourth in a series of Welsh election briefings funded by the Nuffield Foundation. It does not attribute blame for the trends it identifies to any particular party or government, focusing instead on the data and its implications for future policy.
The employment picture is particularly relevant to communities across South West Wales. Swansea has recorded the weakest payroll performance of any Welsh city region in recent months, with a net loss of more than 1,300 jobs on payroll in the year to January 2026. That places the city at the bottom of a league table of Welsh regions at a time when the national picture is already challenging.
The picture in Swansea is not entirely bleak, however, and the IFS data captures trends at a regional level that don’t always reflect the grain of individual investment decisions. A significant wave of business activity has been reported in the city in recent months. Amazon-owned tech firm Veeqo has opened its new headquarters at the 71/72 Kingsway development, where global workspace operator IWG has also taken 20,000 square feet — part of a Kingsway scheme that has attracted its first wave of tenants and formally opened in recent weeks, with a further office development now under way at the former St David’s site. Amazon itself has pointed to £2.4 billion in Welsh investment with Swansea at its centre.
Beyond the office sector, retailers including Skechers and Boyes have arrived in the city, Greggs has opened a larger city centre shop as part of the ongoing regeneration programme, and a Penllergaer distribution warehouse — approved by Swansea Council’s planning committee this week — is expected to create around 250 jobs when operational. Homegrown businesses are also making their mark: a Swansea firm recently secured £8 million to develop deep-sea wind power technology, Swansea Building Society has expanded its branch network and launched a new app on the back of strong demand, and a women-led city brewery has been celebrating growth. Travis Perkins has relocated its Swansea branch to a larger site in Llansamlet, creating new jobs in the process.
The IFS report itself acknowledges that improving the employment and earnings picture is a long-term structural challenge, not one that turns on any single investment or announcement. For people in Swansea and across South West Wales, the question the data poses is whether the visible signs of regeneration and investment are translating into better-paid, more secure work — and the IFS findings suggest that on the numbers currently available, the answer is not yet a clear yes.
The IFS’s analysis is based on a range of official data sources including the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings and the Family Resources Survey, with the authors noting that well-documented problems with UK labour market data mean the precise employment figures should be treated with some caution, even as the broader trend is clear across multiple datasets.
Related stories from Swansea Bay News
ONS figures show Wales unemployment at highest level since 2015
The national statistics that set the backdrop to today’s IFS findings — Wales already had the worst employment rate of any UK nation.BOTTOM OF THE PILE: Swansea recorded as weakest for jobs in Wales as payroll numbers plunge
The local dimension to the national picture — Swansea sitting at the bottom of the Welsh jobs league table.Amazon says £2.4bn investment has boosted Wales — with Swansea at the centre
The investment case being made for Swansea — and the question of whether it’s closing the gap the IFS has identified.SENEDD SHAKE-UP: Winners and losers revealed as First Minister on course to lose seat
#Business #Economy #employment #IFS #InstituteForFiscalStudies #jobs #livingStandards #pay #unemployment #wages #WelshEconomy
The election context in which today’s IFS report lands — and what the economic picture means for voters on May 7. -
High streets set for £319 million investment and boost to playgrounds
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/high-streets-set-319-million-36903179
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/803712/ Living standards to be ‘far bleaker’ after 2026 despite Reeves’ claims #Business #economics #Economy #Growth #IFS #InstituteForFiscalStudies(ifs) #KeirStarmer #Labour #LivingStandards #News #OBR #OfficeForBudgetResponsibility(obr) #RachelReeves #ResolutionFoundation #UK #UKEconomy #UKGovernment #UnitedKingdom
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British economist and former Citi trader Gary Stevenson warns that Australia is losing its "fair go" ethos due to a worsening housing crisis and widening wealth gap. During an Australian speaking tour, he told the ABC that governments worldwide are failing to seriously tackle inequality. Stevenson advocates for higher wages, improved housing affordability, and tax reforms that take more from the wealthy to boost living standards for low and middle-income households. He warns that without action, Australia will face the same decline in public services and rise in poverty seen in the UK and Europe. Despite his large YouTube following, Political leaders, trapped in "bubbles," are resistant to changing the economic status quo.
#garystevenson #australia #fairgo #housingcrisis #wealthinequality #economicinequality #taxreform #livingstandards #publicservices #poverty #uk #europe #abcnews #abcbusiness
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This looks set to be a brilliant event on understanding the needs of lower-income families, with many great speakers, including CPC-CG member Athina Vlachantoni, who will discuss how we should properly value both paid and unpaid work.
Register to attend in person or online on 10 Feb: https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/events/unsung-britain-final-conference/
#demography #socialpolicy #socialscience #families #lowincome #costofliving #inequality #labourmarket #socialmobility #economy #livingstandards #poverty #welfare #caring #ageing #ukpolitics
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Remember that the people who supported Brexit said they were fine with this, don't forget to hold them to it now...
#Brexit #Economy #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #CostOfLivingCrisis #LivingStandards
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Slash spending and reform taxes, IMF urges Australia
Reviving the Gillard-era mining tax and slashing income taxes should be on the Albanese government’s agenda to boost…
#Economy #Albanesegovernment #australia #Economicperformance #IMF #incometax #incometaxes #indirecttaxes #InternationalMonetaryFund #jimchalmers #livingstandards #personalincometaxes #Propertytaxes #reservebank #taxreform
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Australia’s real economic challenge isn’t welfare dependency — it’s inequality
Economic inequality in Australia is the worst it has been in 20 years — if the goal is…
#NewsBeep #News #Australia #ACOSS #AU #auspol #Australia'scost-of-living #Australianeconomy #employment #livingstandards #ndis #neoliberalism #taxinequality #WEALTHINEQUALITY #welfare #welfaredependency
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“If you look at a long period of time, a lot of our increase in #LivingStandards seems to be coming from public investment in #scientific #research. The rates of return are just really high,”said Andrew Fieldhouse, a Texas A&M economist & an author of the Dallas Fed study.
Political leaders in earlier [smarter] eras appeared to recognize that payoff.
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The article discusses the reversal of economic trends, with the U.S. returning to manufacturing and protective policies, highlighting challenges in wages, employment, and living standards in both the U.S. and South Korea.
#YonhapInfomax #EconomicTrends #ManufacturingReturn #WageStagnation #YouthEmployment #LivingStandards #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
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ScienceDirect wants to solve world poverty 😇 by cutting resource use by 70%—because who needs "decent" living standards anyway? 🤔 Meanwhile, their website can't even provide content without a 404 error. 🚫
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452292924000493 #ScienceDirect #PovertySolution #ResourceEfficiency #404Error #LivingStandards #HackerNews #ngated -
Living Standards in Crisis: A Decade of Stagnation.
Over the past 10 years, living standards in Australia have taken a massive hit. Disposable incomes per person have grown by a mere 0.15% annually—one of the weakest performances in the developed world.
This isn’t just a number—it’s a reflection of the struggles families face every day. It’s time to ask: why are we falling behind, and what can be done to turn this around?#LivingStandards #EconomicCrisis #Australia #IncomeGrowth #BetterNotBigger #Auspol https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2025/03/living-standards-collapsed-under-labor-and-coalition/
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Living Standards in Crisis: A Decade of Stagnation.
Over the past 10 years, living standards in Australia have taken a massive hit. Disposable incomes per person have grown by a mere 0.15% annually—one of the weakest performances in the developed world.
This isn’t just a number—it’s a reflection of the struggles families face every day. It’s time to ask: why are we falling behind, and what can be done to turn this around?#LivingStandards #EconomicCrisis #Australia #IncomeGrowth #BetterNotBigger #Auspol https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2025/03/living-standards-collapsed-under-labor-and-coalition/
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Living Standards in Crisis: A Decade of Stagnation.
Over the past 10 years, living standards in Australia have taken a massive hit. Disposable incomes per person have grown by a mere 0.15% annually—one of the weakest performances in the developed world.
This isn’t just a number—it’s a reflection of the struggles families face every day. It’s time to ask: why are we falling behind, and what can be done to turn this around?#LivingStandards #EconomicCrisis #Australia #IncomeGrowth #BetterNotBigger #Auspol https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2025/03/living-standards-collapsed-under-labor-and-coalition/
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Living Standards in Crisis: A Decade of Stagnation.
Over the past 10 years, living standards in Australia have taken a massive hit. Disposable incomes per person have grown by a mere 0.15% annually—one of the weakest performances in the developed world.
This isn’t just a number—it’s a reflection of the struggles families face every day. It’s time to ask: why are we falling behind, and what can be done to turn this around?#LivingStandards #EconomicCrisis #Australia #IncomeGrowth #BetterNotBigger #Auspol https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2025/03/living-standards-collapsed-under-labor-and-coalition/
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Living Standards in Crisis: A Decade of Stagnation.
Over the past 10 years, living standards in Australia have taken a massive hit. Disposable incomes per person have grown by a mere 0.15% annually—one of the weakest performances in the developed world.
This isn’t just a number—it’s a reflection of the struggles families face every day. It’s time to ask: why are we falling behind, and what can be done to turn this around?#LivingStandards #EconomicCrisis #Australia #IncomeGrowth #BetterNotBigger #Auspol https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2025/03/living-standards-collapsed-under-labor-and-coalition/
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Pollution & Deforestation In The Medieval World
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https://www.thecollector.com/pollution-deforestation-medieval-world/ <-- shared technical article
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#medieval #history #deforestation #pollution #middleages #coal #seacoal #heating #fuel #trees #forests #airpollution #waterquality #ships #shipping #watermills #environmental #climatechange #MedievalWarmPeriod #food #agriculture #civilisation #mining #urban #city #cities #growth #humanimpacts #population #livingstandards #clearing #croplands #waterresources #economy #ecosystems #farming #airpollution #publichealth #waterpollution -
🗓 CPC-CG / CRA webinar on 30 Jan ⤵️
Rod Hick from #Cardiff University explores how #poverty rates and #livingstandards have evolved across #Europe since the 2004 #EU enlargement, focusing on #socialsecurity, #labourmarkets, and #demographics.
Register to join us online: https://www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/full_events_calendar/893/CPC_CGCRA_Webinar__Rod_Hick
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Rory and Alistair once again banging on about growth. Maybe they're just showing their age, old dog, new tricks, and all that. Because from what they're saying, it seems like UK Labour have moved on, to talking about stuff like raising living standards, which is what most people really care about.
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#UK households face second year without improved #LivingStandards, says IMF
Growth per head will remain flat this year as the effects of high #inflation take time to abate
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/16/uk-households-living-standards-imf-inflation
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People are poorer than at the last election and all Hunt can do is hope | Larry Elliott | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/07/people-poorer-than-last-election-all-jeremy-hunt-can-do-is-hope#Hunt
#Poverty
#LivingStandards
#GE
#GodalmingAndAsh
#Constituency
#BankOfEngland
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People are poorer than at the last election and all Hunt can do is hope | Larry Elliott | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/07/people-poorer-than-last-election-all-jeremy-hunt-can-do-is-hope#Hunt
#Poverty
#LivingStandards
#GE
#GodalmingAndAsh
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#BankOfEngland
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People are poorer than at the last election and all Hunt can do is hope | Larry Elliott | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/07/people-poorer-than-last-election-all-jeremy-hunt-can-do-is-hope#Hunt
#Poverty
#LivingStandards
#GE
#GodalmingAndAsh
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#BankOfEngland
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People are poorer than at the last election and all Hunt can do is hope | Larry Elliott | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/07/people-poorer-than-last-election-all-jeremy-hunt-can-do-is-hope#Hunt
#Poverty
#LivingStandards
#GE
#GodalmingAndAsh
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People are poorer than at the last election and all Hunt can do is hope | Larry Elliott | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/07/people-poorer-than-last-election-all-jeremy-hunt-can-do-is-hope#Hunt
#Poverty
#LivingStandards
#GE
#GodalmingAndAsh
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#BankOfEngland
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the #budget: plans to placate backbench critics, not meet the nation’s needs
Raising #taxes and cutting #PublicSpending won’t generate the #investment to lift #LivingStandards and #productivity
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/06/the-guardian-view-on-the-budget-plans-to-placate-backbench-critics-not-meet-the-nations-needs
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryCynicism #TorySelfServing
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'#Budget plans risk ‘second lost decade’ of #LivingStandards, #JeremyHunt told
Exclusive: #JosephRowntreeFoundation finds widening gulf between demand for #TaxCuts and reality for millions struggling'
'...the budget risked keeping the #UK #economy locked on track to leave working families £1,900 a year worse off in 2029 than they were in 2021.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/04/budget-plans-risk-second-lost-decade-of-living-standards-jeremy-hunt-told
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35% of Russians have complained about the decline in living standards due to the ongoing war against Ukraine. Despite official reports of decreasing poverty and a 15-year record increase in real wages, Russian citizens are experiencing income decline, rising prices, and accessibility issues with food products. 40% of respondents are concerned about rising prices and reduced food variety. 20% believe the change in living standards is a direct result of the war. #Russia #LivingStandards
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#RishiSunak has been warned against launching a fresh #austerity drive after official figures confirmed #Britain’s #economy is in #recession and #LivingStandards have suffered their longest sustained fall since records began almost 70 years ago. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/15/rishi-sunak-warned-against-fresh-austerity-drive-to-finance-tax-cuts
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"Toledo is not Madrid" says Mauricio Delichman, as he shows an archival source for his fascinating paper with David Gonzalez Agudo on wages, living standards & skill premia in Toledo 1517-1800, at the economichistory.ca conference hosted by Shari Eli & Laura Salisbury at the Munk School in Toronto!
@econhist @economics @laborecon #Spain #Toledo #wages #LivingStandards #skill #archives #history #histodons -
'So #Britain is world-beating at something after all: batshit #royal #pageantry -
Our #LivingStandards may be slipping behind those of far less wealthy countries, but do they have a holy spoon to anoint their leaders?'
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/05/britain-world-beating-royal-pageantry-coronation
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After moving to #Germany and seeing the high #QualityOfLife in #Europe in general, I started questioning: #capitalism and the #FreeMarket will always win over socialism? Youtubers #TheBlackForestFamily try to settle the debate once and for all.
Comparing #American & #German #wages, #salaries, #taxes, and #SocialContributions to find out: Who actually has greater #DisposableIncome?
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After moving to #Germany and seeing the high #QualityOfLife in #Europe in general, I started questioning: #capitalism and the #FreeMarket will always win over socialism? Youtubers #TheBlackForestFamily try to settle the debate once and for all.
Comparing #American & #German #wages, #salaries, #taxes, and #SocialContributions to find out: Who actually has greater #DisposableIncome?
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After moving to #Germany and seeing the high #QualityOfLife in #Europe in general, I started questioning: #capitalism and the #FreeMarket will always win over socialism? Youtubers #TheBlackForestFamily try to settle the debate once and for all.
Comparing #American & #German #wages, #salaries, #taxes, and #SocialContributions to find out: Who actually has greater #DisposableIncome?
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After moving to #Germany and seeing the high #QualityOfLife in #Europe in general, I started questioning: #capitalism and the #FreeMarket will always win over socialism? Youtubers #TheBlackForestFamily try to settle the debate once and for all.
Comparing #American & #German #wages, #salaries, #taxes, and #SocialContributions to find out: Who actually has greater #DisposableIncome?
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After moving to #Germany and seeing the high #QualityOfLife in #Europe in general, I started questioning: #capitalism and the #FreeMarket will always win over socialism? Youtubers #TheBlackForestFamily try to settle the debate once and for all.
Comparing #American & #German #wages, #salaries, #taxes, and #SocialContributions to find out: Who actually has greater #DisposableIncome?
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EU well placed to protect and enhance citizens’ living standards while pursuing an ambitious transition to an environmentally sustainable economy
Marianne Thyssen, the Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility, said:
In 2018, we witnessed positive developments in the European economy, labour markets and society. For the sixth consecutive year, the EU’s ambitious agenda for jobs, growth and investment boosted a robust and job-rich recovery.
an dcontinued
The Employment and Social Developments in Europe (ESDE) review is here again to provide evidence-based groundwork for this reflection. The 2019 edition focuses on “Sustainable growth for all: choices for the future of social Europe”. It explores the EU’s understanding of sustainable development and its links to economic growth, social inclusion, equality and well-being, climate and natural resources, and labour market institutions.
The news from ESDE’s analysis is good. Making Europe’s development sustainable is a perfectly realistic goal. Mainstreaming our actions upfront in the social domain as well as on climate and the environment can be a productive investment in economic performance. This is key to preserve our living standards.ESDE confirms the continued expansion of the EU’s economy, all-time records for high employment and low unemployment as well as an improving social situation with the number of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) continuing to fall below its pre-crisis level.
Nonetheless, ageing, globalisation, technological transformation, climate change and geopolitical uncertainties challenge the sustainability of these achievements and the EU’s socio-economic model. Citizens increasingly expect policymakers to accelerate the transition to a socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable economy that benefits the well-being of all and leaves nobody behind. This is why the 2019 ESDE is dedicated to the theme of sustainability with a focus on its social dimension. ESDE discusses policy options that can preserve the EU’s competitiveness, sustain growth for the entire EU population and future generations, while transitioning to a climate-neutral economy. Making this a just transition requires mainstreaming social considerations upfront, in the design phase as well as in the implementation of all policies.
At global level, new risks such as protectionist tendencies in trade and increased international economic and geopolitical uncertainties contributed to a slowdown in global and EU growth in 2018 and led to further downward corrections of economic forecasts.
It was nice to see that more young people could bring older ones to think about climate change. In several countries we could find youngsters for several weeks bringing the climate to the forefront. Climate change, environmental degradation and inefficient use of natural resources also weigh on sustainable development prospects in the EU and the world. More Europeans are increasingly demonstrating a keen awareness of these challenges and of the importance of addressing all three dimensions of sustainability – economic, social and environmental – together. The aim is to make all of Europe’s achievements — its competitive economy, high living standards, valued welfare state, and pioneering engagement with the environment — sustainable in the long term for future generations. In particular by participating in weekly ‘climate marches’ across Europe since
the second half of 2018, students and other EU citizens have requested accelerated action against climate change.Greta Thunberg (2018 August 27)
It was lovely to see the movement for climate growing. The action by students, “School strike for the climate”, known as truancy for the climate or climate march for a better future, calling on governments to take measures against global warming could not be ignored any-more by the politicians.
The actions came about following the international movement School strikes for climate, School Strikes 4 Climate, Fridays for Future (Germany and Austria) and Klimastreik (Switzerland), which started in August 2018 on the initiative of Greta Thunberg.Climate truants on January 24, 2019 in the Trierstraat, near the European Parliament, in Brussels
In Belgium, the first Youth for Climate actions started in December, 2018, at the initiative of a young climate activist from Mortsel (Antwerp) Anuna De Wever together with Kyra Gantois.
Galvanized by the COP24 Climate Change Conference in Katowice, Poland, strikes continued at least in 270 cities in countries including Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Finland, Denmark and the United Kingdom.
Feb 21, 2019 – Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg has led a march of thousands of Belgian students who skipped classes for the seventh Thursday in a row to march through Brussels and draw more attention to fighting climate change.
“FridaysForFuture” protest in Berlin on 14 December 2018. Students Strike for Climate in front of the German parliament in Berlin.
Meanwhile, other parts of the population voiced their anxiety about the cost of the economic transition necessary to combat climate change and the fairness of sharing that cost.
In recent Eurobarometer surveys, Europeans mention social concerns
related to rising prices, health and social security, pensions and the financial situation of their household as the most important issues they face at a personal level. Concerns relating to environment, climate and energy issues and housing are gaining ground over time. Europeans increasingly demand action to address the evident contrasts, while continuing efforts to address other important challenges – notably migration and security – and combat climate change and environmental degradation.We can well say that the policy challenge is multiple and requires simultaneous responses: to those who face difficulties making ends
meet, who feel uncertain about their employment prospects, who enjoy lower levels of well-being or feel left behind; to those who believe that climate action is currently too limited and too slow; to those who fear that it is happening faster than they can afford, or adjust to or that it is diverting resources away from other investments or innovation; and also to those who caution that unilateral climate action might hurt the EU’s productivity and competitiveness.*
ESDE is the European Commission’s flagship analytical report in the area of employment and social affairs, mandated by Articles 151, 159 and 161 TFEU.
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