women's budget group, Plan F, austerity myth, summer budget 2015Clear need for ‘Plan F’, a feminist strategy for a caring and sustainable economy.

A further £12billion extracted from an already depleted social security budget will undermine the security of women and drive poor families deeper into poverty.

Self evident really.

But this is one of several policies outlined by the newly-elected Conservative government in the Summer Budget presented on 8 July.

And the result will be increased personal debt, a rise in maternal poverty and greater care burdens on women.

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