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Category:

The economy Touchstone Pamphlets

Stock Code: EC152

Date of Publication:

2015

Published By:

Trades Union Congress

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10.00

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Today's young people are having to deal with falling wages, rising house prices and increasingly insecure jobs. But is cutting benefits for older people really the answer?

This Touchstone pamphlet challenges the myths that all pensioners are rich and that reducing older people's benefits would be a solution to younger people's problems.

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