The view

2022 - 3 - 29

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The Guardian view on Sunak and the poor: an abdication of ... (The Guardian)

Editorial: Loan sharks and economic predators will profit from the chancellor's indifference to the fate of the least well-off.

But in the short term, there is a stark ethical imperative to boost the incomes of the least well-off now. Providing next to nothing by way of direct support and mitigation, Rishi Sunak’s spring statement left these families to fend for themselves. The incomes of the poorest quarter of households – the vast majority without savings to fall back on – are set to plummet by 6% in real terms.

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'The View' Weighs In on Consequences for Will Smith's Oscars Slap ... (Decider)

WILL SMITH APOLOGIZES TO CHRIS ROCK: The actor apologized for slapping comedian Chris Rock following a joke he made about wife Jada Pinkett Smith at the ...

“There were people there for Chris. The reason people got up and went over to [Smith] is because people though, ‘Oh my God, is he having a break? Kids need to know, Sunny, you made the point the other day, if that was a child in school, what you teach your kids is that there are consequences for your actions.” “I understand that he had a break at that point, even his mother acknowledged that he went off, but you can’t selectively decide who gets consequences and who doesn’t. I think at that point he should have been removed, and he should have been taken out, I’m not saying arrested, I’m saying removed from the auditorium, spoken to.

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