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The coalition has already abandoned the Child Poverty Act

By Guest | Published: May 21, 2013

Yesterday on the pages of this blog, Stewart Lansley claimed that I had “hurled a hand grenade” into the poverty debate by urging Labour to rethink its approach to child poverty. Leaving aside the hyperbole of that statement, Lansley’s case seems to be that my intervention “chimes with the line being taken by the coalition” in its attempts to redefine child poverty and its causes. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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Poverty: The 2010 consensus in tatters

By Guest | Published: May 20, 2013

Dropping the child poverty target would mean accepting a level of poverty much higher than almost all countries of comparable wealth.

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Where Osborne’s cuts might fall

By James Bloodworth | Published: March 21, 2013

Where George Osborne’s departmental cuts might fall.

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Apprenticeships must benefit the North as well as the South

By Guest | Published: March 11, 2013

National Apprenticeship week is a great opportunity to celebrate all that is good about our apprenticeships. It is imperative that the government ensure that apprenticeships are not only targeted to work for our young people, but that they provide decent, sustainable routes into employment across the UK, ensuring that our economy as a whole benefits just as much in the North as in the South.

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Experts line up to distance themselves from Fallon’s deregulatory push

By Guest | Published: February 27, 2013

Business minister Michael Fallon MP this week blamed both the financial crisis and the deaths in Mid Staffordshire hospital on the “regulatory culture” of the Labour years. However deregulation risks babies and bathwater territory. What we need is better and more effective regulatory systems so that failures cannot be ignored again and stakeholders are protected.

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New research confirms the government’s net migration target is unsustainable

By Sarah Mulley | Published: February 15, 2013

Arbitrary targets to reduce migration are unlikely to work, argues Sarah Mulley of the Institute for Public Policy Research.

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The principles of migration policy

By Jill Rutter | Published: January 18, 2013

Following this week’s IPPR paper on the subject, Jill Rutter looks at the principles of migration policy.

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Happy New Year! And here’s the coalition outlook for 2013: grim with no plan for growth

By Tony Dolphin | Published: January 1, 2013

IPPR’s Tony Dolphin offers his outlook for 2013 and damns the lack of vision on the part of the coalition’s economic plan for the year ahead.

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Economic update – December 2012: Triple-dip ahead?

By Amna Silim | Published: December 10, 2012

IPPR’s Amna Silim presents the latest Left Foot Forward economic update, for December 2012.

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Five challenges for Cameron and the success of his wellbeing agenda

By Guest | Published: November 19, 2012

With the first wellbeing statistics due out tomorrow, Graeme Henderson challenges David Cameron to actually use the data to influence policy.

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