Progress: Looking ahead to the budget

From LabourList

Progress Online have today published a series of articles looking ahead to Alistair Darling’s budget, which will be announced on April 22.

The series includes the following:

Peter Hain – Labour’s budget must be bold: More public investment, not less, is needed to see Britain through the downturn. Read >>

Meg Munn – Confidence building: The budget should help people acquire the skills and advantages needed to get out of the recession. Read >>

Mark Todd – Fiscal condition: Some radical thinking and difficult choices are needed to nurse the public finances back to health. Read >>

Karen Buck – Child’s Play: Ending child poverty is not just a moral imperative, it could help beat the recession as well. Read >>

Sally Keeble – Stating the obvious: An empowering state will be essential to coping with the constrained public finances following the recession. Read >>

Alan Whitehead – Green shoots: A green budget makes sense for the environment and tackling the economic downturn. Read >>