“If the festivals return to business as usual in 2021, complete with the same bad bosses, lousy wages and illegal working practices, with corners cut and conditions worsened in a mad drive for profit to make up for the losses faced this year, all efforts made to help them now will ring hollow.”
Covid-19
Local knowledge is key to dealing with community’s basic needs during crisis, but the government should be doing everything they can to provide funding and support, in order to protect society’s most vulnerable people.
Food During Crisis: Government Needs to Support Communities That Support the Vulnerable
An important study was published yesterday from Bristol University on the possible economic repercussions of the Coronavirus lockdown. It found that a fall in GDP of more than 6.4 per cent could lead to more deaths than will be saved through beating the virus. “I’m worried that in order to solve one problem we’d create a bigger […]