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100 years today since The Great Gatsby was published and this still rings true. The extreme wealth in society which can at times result in carelessness and chaos - with others cleaning up the mess

🎧Looking for some Friday listening? How about the latest episode of the Financial Fairness Podcast. Our CEO, Mubin Haq, interviews Alison Garnham, CEO of Child Poverty Action Group, about how we can best tackle child poverty. Listen here: buff.ly/tr1mnnP

2 million families have their benefit income reduced as a result of the capital rules in Universal Credit. 830,000 have a partial cut & 1.2 million a full cut. The capital limits have been frozen since 2006. New analysis Resolution Foundation abrdn Financial Fairness Trust resolutionfoundation.org/publications/s…

Looking forward to joining Helen Miller, John Penrose, Mubin Haq and Andrew Lilico at Bright Blue's conference on Weds to discuss public views of taxation and tax reform. To sign-up, link in next tweet...

Valuable insights which will be vital in coming up with better solutions

With the Scottish parliamentary elections next May, we abrdn Financial Fairness Trust have joined with The Robertson Trust to launch a new fund to support economic analysis & policy work to assess the key issues facing Scotland - closing date 9th July - more details at financialfairness.org.uk/en-gb/news-and…

Good to see the change to free school meals. A step in the right direction but we definitely need to see more action if we are to avoid child poverty rising over the next few years bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Good to talk to Mubin Haq for this podcast about NEF's assessment of the scale & impact of the proposed cuts to disability and health benefits, what's been driving rising claims, and how the government should be responding

1 in 3 reducing their water use as they struggle to cope with rising bills - rising to more than 1 in 4 lower income families. This comes as essential bills have significantly risen , esp. water bills. Latest from abrdn Financial Fairness Trust Personal Finance Research Centre on BBC Money Box financialfairness.org.uk/en-gb/news-and…

Did the Spending Review pass the living standards test? Last week The Fabian Society set out a number of steps the govt could take to ensure economic growth benefits those on lower incomes - supported by abrdn Financial Fairness Trust financialfairness.org.uk/en-gb/news-and…

Great to speak to Tom Pollard NEF and get his take on the impact of the proposed cuts to disability/health benefits, what's behind rising claims, and whether the Govt’s reforms will work. Latest abrdn Financial Fairness Trust podcast financialfairness.org.uk/en-gb/what-we-…

Latest analysis of pay ratios in FTSE 350 companies by High Pay Centre supported by abrdn Financial Fairness Trust - shows pay for CEOs in FTSE 100 is 106 times that of their lower quartile workers. Progress on closing this gap over the past five years has stagnated theguardian.com/business/2025/…

The situation in Gaza remains horrific. Israeli soldiers killed 59 Palestinians seeking food aid. On Tuesday 34 killed. Over the past 3 weeks, a further 338 died in Gaza trying to access food at centres backed by Israel and the US ft.com/content/696964…

Great to see the final report on establishing a Minimum Income Guarantee in Scotland. It sets out a road map on how to improve living standards. Lots of work to get to this stage, first developed by IPPR Scotland - especially Russell Gunson bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Will the government's pensions bill make any difference to low earners and what improvements are still needed? New blog from abrdn Financial Fairness Trust policy advisor Andrew Harrop financialfairness.org.uk/en-gb/what-we-…

📢 Government welfare cuts ‘wrong choice’ according to public The latest edition of the Financial Fairness Tracker (with Personal Finance Research Centre ) is out today. Twice as many people feel the Government’s changes were the ‘wrong choice’ (54%) than the ‘right choice’ (26%). Read more:

Govt welfare cuts are the wrong choice - twice as many of the public oppose as support: 54% vs 26% - latest Opinium polling for abrdn Financial Fairness Trust Personal Finance Research Centre tracker (6k sample) - as govt welfare reform bill may be blocked financialfairness.org.uk/en-gb/news-and…

Some timely polling on disability benefit cuts - mirrors our findings from polling with More in Common

Welcome changes to disability & health related benefits. As research abrdn Financial Fairness Trust showed the cuts were not supported by the public. Advocacy by many made a huge difference which will reduce anxiety for millions. However, cuts for new claimants are steep theguardian.com/politics/2025/…