During the Covid-19 pandemic, the greatest crisis of our generation, healthcare has been top of mind for many Americans. For the one in six Americans drowning in medical bills, reform can’t come soon enough. From riding in an ambulance to delivering a baby, families are regularly hit with thousands of dollars in medical expenses, even…
I am hoping you will be able to uncover what is happening at the Woodland Trust, an organisation which featured very positively in your paper recently. Its MOREwoods scheme helps fund woodland planting schemes that involve more than 500 trees. I successfully applied for a grant in November, and was supposed to start planting this…
The real earnings of UK workers will fall this year and remain stagnant after that despite a strong economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, according to analysis of the budget that suggests the government will oversee one of the worst periods for UK living standards on record. Incomes will lag behind inflation during 2021-22 –…
The coronavirus crisis has hit household finances after Covid restrictions froze key parts of the British economy. Wednesday’s budget included measures designed to help first-time buyers and the self-employed, and news that a temporary increase in universal credit would be extended. We spoke to people about what it would mean for them and their families….
Rishi Sunak has announced the highest tax increases since Norman Lamont 28 years ago, with a £65bn raid on household incomes and company profits. In a budget that reversed more than a decade of tax cuts by successive Tory governments and was even tougher than George Osborne’s post 2010-election austerity package, the chancellor announced tough…
Government support for self-employed people has been extended until the end of the summer but the chancellor is facing fresh criticism over a scheme that critics say will still leave millions of workers without support. Grants for those whose earnings have been hit by the coronavirus pandemic will last until September, taking the overall cost…
