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The Independent View: being fair isn’t so simple

By Matthew Whittaker | Fri 18th June 2010 - 7:16 pm

Nick Clegg has repeatedly promised in recent weeks that the coalition government’s deficit reduction plan will be fair. But it will not be easy to deliver on these words. ‘Fairness’ cannot be measured simple by considering the gap between the richest and the poorest: as the Institute for Fiscal Studies has shown, during the last three recessions, it was low to moderate income households who were hit hardest.

All the evidence so far suggests that it has been no different this time round. It is the working poor who are struggling most when it comes to the labour market, security of …

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