Almost as many die in workplace accidents as in gang crime. Hundreds of workers, especially men, kill themselves every year because of the hard working life. The welfare increases of 2014-18 were too weak if wonderful and the slaughter of LAS and the attack on the low rent system and the tax cuts for the rich 2018-2022 horrible. Those who were hit hardest by the…
Month: September 2022
Post-election analysis: communication, freedom under responsibility and equality
According to Red Justice's post-election analysis, the broad left including the Social Democrats must improve on communication, freedom under responsibility and equality.
The left party for welfare, climate and industry
First: the public sector must take back control of welfare from the market. It is when politics takes responsibility that we can have functioning care, school and care, full employment and secure jobs. Ever since the 1990s, both s and m governments have privatized and introduced market systems. The Left Party stopped the latest such attempts when they dropped the proposal to…
S is better at healthcare, integration, electricity supply and finance
1. Pension increase. S with the red and green increased the pensions and the housing allowance substantially in 2022 and wants to increase them more in the long term. At the same time, S wants to improve elderly care. S is better. 2. Healthcare. As an S, do you want to reduce market experiments in healthcare? Or should we – as S wants – hire more healthcare staff, scrap cream cheeses and clearance sales, and secure the healthcare guarantee,...
The red-greens have increased pensions in 2022
The red-green parties succeeded in implementing a pension increase and an increase in the housing allowance from August 2022. In the long term, both S,V and MP want more pension increases. Read more here. Pensions are for many an important election issue. And Red Justice's analysis shows that we can afford a good pension increase for ordinary people as well.
Red-green cooperation provides a better distribution policy
Distributive policies can reduce class gaps. Red-green cooperation provides better distribution policy and equality. "During the "best" red-green years in terms of distribution policy, 2016 and 2018, the Swedish Gini coefficient (inequality) decreased and the 20 percent with the lowest income had a better income trend than the 20 percent with the highest income." Source: https://www.dn.se/debatt/rodgront-samarbete-ger-battre-fordelningspolitik/ In addition to the debate article, there is a report. Read the report from Katalys here.
Interest rates do not control the economy
Interest rates do not control the economy. This makes the central banks' monetary policy an extremely ineffective and blunt tool. Jussi Ora has done the following excellent video interview with economics professor Richard Werner. Werner has examined the historical empirical evidence on whether interest rates control the development of the economy. The result was that interest rates do not control this. Fiscal policy is a much more effective tool for governing…