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In the conquest of the economy, the U.S., the rich have made occasional forays to daylight, that the Bush tax cuts, worth 100 times the brigade million per year for most of the workforce. Most often triumphed quietly Mammon: the outsourcing of work, and with it the responsibility of the terms and conditions, the capture of the committees set salaries of heads, and throwing every space left by the unions. Cumulative effects were fantastic. While the old promise of increased prosperity has been violated by the number, 1% of their disposable income has quadrupled. By 1960, might have thought that a disturbance lasting fall rich revolution. In the case, the cheap credit, and wives working for the tax breaks for occasional combine to allow families a standard of living barely increased mean, in most years. But the future, the crumbs of comfort are difficult to detect: the feminization of labor is a trick you can pull twice, and everything ended easy credit crunch

• During the late 20th century, Britain will avoid halfway across the United States. Despite the inequality, the majority of our people, most of the time, never had it so good. In 1970, 80 unions helped secure substantial increases decent, at least for those lucky enough to hang on to their jobs. Then in the 1990s came the minimum wage and tax credits of Gordon Brown. The importance of these two interventions can not be overstated: tax credits, in particular, accounted for the bulk of the total increase enjoyed by many families in the middle right to the bottom of the stack. But even before the crisis, progress has been hesitant, and there is nothing to restart it in perspective. Last week, the High Commission pays realized that we turned back to the inequality of the time of Oliver Twist. Meanwhile, official figures show that wages of ordinary people slid -. And most slip for the most common of all
• George Osborne is not totally blind to the political party of plutocrats when everybody is parsimony - remember he put the glove populist, for the first time on condoms no. But he has neither the strategy nor the desire to reduce the gap in a systematic way. In the fall statement Tuesday gesture to the poor is measured in cents off at the gas pump - while other moves could actually thieves poor. Before the election, Nick Clegg, seemed in harmony with the environment real tight, pushing tax cuts for low-income people in deliberate contrast to Brown's concern with children in poverty. Now, however, their gifts were overwhelmed by a reduced increase in VAT and tax credits.
• leaving us, Ed Miliband, who "squeezed middle", the sentence was named word of the year. It is clearly in line with the problem, although it has crept into the description of the state of "99%" compared to "average". The real question is how to respond to the fury the credibility of earnings, when there is no money to spend. taxes, regulation and law companies, everyone could have a role in reducing the gap, as part of its stated desire to promote wider commercial production of eviction. But we still have to think about how. It is time someone explained how the resources of Britain's poor environment can be saved to the American way.