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18 Jun 12
Global poll: 63% support Robin Hood Tax
Bill Nighy calls for a Robin Hood Tax at the 2011 G20 Summit
Posted by TUC
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G20 told voters want banks to put something back into the global economy

Support for a financial transactions tax - often called the Robin Hood Tax - to make banks and financial institutions pay back to society is at 63 % according to a new 13- country global poll commissioned by the...

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14 Jun 12
Can Robin help us weather this storm?
Posted by Oxfam UK Poverty Team
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Sometimes things get tough for us all. Friends or family lose their jobs, someone close to you dies, wages won't quite stretch to the end of the month. But right now we're all trying to sail through a storm of cuts and "reforms" to the services we rely on, frozen or falling incomes and rising prices. And, for those of us who already found it hard to make ends meet, the problem is looking desperate. 

Just how difficult life is...

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06 Jun 12
New poll: banks not paying fair share
Robin Hood Tax campaigners at the 2011 G20 Summit. Credit: Oxfam International.
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According to a survey, more than three-quarters (77%) of the British public do not think the Government has done enough to ensure we are “all in this together” with a large majority saying that banks and the richest have not been asked to make a fair contribution.

The poll of more than 1,000 people carried out by Ipsos MORI for the Robin Hood Tax campaign, found that two-thirds (68%) of the public thought City funding of the Conservative...

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28 May 12
Robin Hood: backed by the rich, backed by the rest, says new poll
Posted by TUC
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There’s lots of interesting material in the opinion poll released to mark the launch of the new CLASS think-tank today, and there will no doubt be a lot of ...

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