Dear All,
In case you are interested here is a link to a thinkpiece written by Steve Griffiths for Compass- take a look:
This is to let you know that Compass have just published a Thinkpiececalled 'Waking up to the cost of inequality', to coincide with the Labour Party Conference, at http://compassonline.org.uk/publications/thinkpieces/.
It's a response to a lecture by Jon Cruddas, now responsible for leading Labour’s Policy Review, reproduced on the Compass website in May. It takes up his subsequent call for radical thinking. It focuses on the cost and wastefulness of high levels of inequality, and argues that there is a great wealth of insufficiently regarded evidence and abandoned policy to suggest that reducing inequality – and addressing the disempowerment integral to it - is not unaffordable, and is indeed cost-effective. A radical policy review would harness the skills and energy, often similarly discarded and fragmented, to weave these resources together into an empowering whole.
