Much of the reaction to the chancellor’s decision to uprate most working age benefits and tax credits by just 1 per cent per annum for three years has focussed on questions of distribution. As the Resolution Foundation analysis demonstrated 60...
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Shortly after the Labour party conference in October, Ed Miliband gave a speech about a ‘one nation’ approach to mental health.
He talked of mental health as a challenge that affects us all, no matter who we are. Given that one...
The UK was hit particularly hard by the financial crisis, partly because it has a large financial sector relative to the size of the economy. The City is a great economic asset for Britain, but it is also a source...
It is for each generation to make democratic choices about the welfare provision it wishes to pay for, albeit with the ‘path dependency’ of previous decisions, institutional arrangements and implicit promises. Nevertheless economists can make projections regarding the fiscal impact...
In the 21st century, you might think that the way we live our lives would no longer be determined by anything as primal as the weather. So it might come as a surprise to be reminded that winter – or...
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has just announced that 3 million people in the UK consider themselves underemployed, so it may seem strange for me to argue that what the country really needs is more part-time and flexible working...