Living standards
TRUE PROSPERITY AND NEW METABOLISMS
Author / Creator: Mike Small
Media type: Discussion Paper
Date published: 2022
This is an outline of how we might situate degrowth in a history of alternative economics and regenerative movements, in the context of brutal new scientific and socio-economic realities. What does ‘true prosperity’ look like in times of socio-ecological crisis?
Revealed: UK’s paltry pension can’t provide even the most basic standard of living
Author / Creator: Believe in Scotland
Media type: News Media
Date published:
The UK state pension is not big enough to support the bare minimum standard of living for a single person, according to a new report. And it warns that a quarter of employees are not on track to be able to afford it.