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When communicating this issue please acknowledge the Radical Statistics website: www.radstats.org.uk <http://www.radstats.org.uk/> . Also, please ask your library to subscribe to Radical Statistics: £25 a year, details on that website. The articles will eventually be available online, but only after several weeks. It is best for Radical Statistics if interested people are directed to the website and subscribe to the newsletter. Authors are free to circulate their own article as a pdf. file. Press Release Radical Statistics #103 The Radical Statistics Group has published its newsletter three times a year since it was founded in 1975. This issue represents a Radical Statistics analysis of the cuts in government expenditure and was edited by Paul Spicker and Ludi Simpson. Listed below are the contents from ‘The Cuts’, articles released by the Radical Statistics Group on Wednesday 10th November. Authors’ contact details are against each article: each is available by email (preferred) or phone. The full articles may be requested in a pdf version of the printed journal, minus its covers. Some headline statements: By accentuating inequality, the cuts will also increase the future risk of economic turbulence (Lansley) The government is reshaping the statistics to tell its story. We can read the same figures differently. The effect of the cuts is very regressive. (Horton/Reed) Cutting public services is not the way to fairness. (Exell) Wales to be especially badly hit by CSR cuts. (Moore, not available 10th Nov) Welsh pensioners and children to lose out in cuts. (Moore, not available 10th Nov) The cuts in social security won't do what the government hopes; they'll be back for more. (Spicker) Pensioners have not really been protected; they will be hit, too. (Ginn) The planned universal state pension is welcome but pensioners need it now - to reduce pensioner poverty and to end means testing. (Ginn) The areas with the greatest needs are going to suffer. (Franco) There are different ways to cut the deficit, if that's what we want to do. (Grieve Smith) CONTENTS Inequality, austerity and the crash Stewart Lansley [log in to unmask] 07702449321 Page 4 The distributional impact of the 2010 Spending Review Tim Horton and Howard Reed [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] 07968 499697. Page 13 The Spending Review and Public Sector Jobs Richard Exell [log in to unmask] 0779 596 5706. Page 25 Impacts on Wales Robert Moore [log in to unmask] 01352 714456 07984 854098 not available on November 10th except by prior arrangement. Page 35 Cutting Social Security Paul Spicker [log in to unmask] 07906219262. Page 40 The unkindest cuts: the impact on older people Jay Ginn [log in to unmask] 01737 559341 or 07881492042. Page 49 From Witney to Wigan - how national changes to welfare benefit rules have a differential impact on local communities Alan Franco [log in to unmask] 0161 342 3100 Mobile 07970 165 466 Page 58 The cuts are the wrong answer John Grieve Smith [log in to unmask] 01483 503907 Page 64 ****************************************************** Please note that if you press the 'Reply' button your message will go only to the sender of this message. If you want to reply to the whole list, use your mailer's 'Reply-to-All' button to send your message automatically to [log in to unmask] Disclaimer: The messages sent to this list are the views of the sender and cannot be assumed to be representative of the range of views held by subscribers to the Radical Statistics Group. To find out more about Radical Statistics and its aims and activities and read current and past issues of our newsletter you are invited to visit our web site www.radstats.org.uk. *******************************************************