New Labour's young Ed has a word for their aims at helping you with those concerns KeithB, "Predistribution"...
"... Miliband argued that the "model of the economy we have and the distribution of income it creates" should be the focus of Labour's attentions in the future.
He declared: "We need to care about predistribution as well as redistribution."
This new concept seeks to funnel government money into measures like the living wage and tackle the unfairness inherent in high train ticket and energy prices, in order to give people a foundation on which they can improve their lives..."
From...
http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2012/09/06/miliband-s-new-big-idea-predistribution