{"id":3592,"date":"2010-09-11T14:00:33","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3592"},"modified":"2010-09-11T14:00:33","modified_gmt":"2010-09-11T13:00:33","slug":"cuts-hit-poorest-hardest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3592","title":{"rendered":"Cuts hit poorest hardest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If cuts in public expenditure have to be made &#8211; and they do (although the scale and speed are very much for debate) &#8211; the Government should ensure that those most dependent on state services are least hit.<\/p>\n<p>But new research commissioned by the Trades Union Congress shows that precisely the opposite is the case. The coalition&#8217;s spending cuts will hit the poorest in society 10 times  harder than the richest as the health, social and education services  they rely on are slashed<\/p>\n<p>More detail of how the cuts affect different social groups <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/2010\/sep\/10\/tuc-brendan-barber-spending-cuts\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If cuts in public expenditure have to be made &#8211; and they do (although the scale and speed are very much for debate) &#8211; the Government should ensure that those most dependent on state services are least hit. But new research commissioned by the Trades Union Congress shows that precisely the opposite is the case. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3594,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592\/revisions\/3594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}