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  • Monday, 2 October, 2023
    News in-depthScotland
    How a £25 payment is turning Scotland into a European pioneer in reducing child deprivation

    Welfare policy is cutting poverty among under 16s to levels below the rest of Britain, say supporters

    Bonnie Quinn
  • Friday, 29 September, 2023
    Demographics and population
    Why are white Britons dying at higher rates than other ethnic groups?

    New mortality data could help create targeted policy to reduce the UK’s large and growing disease burden

    A doctor with a stethoscope round his neck talking to a patient
  • Friday, 15 September, 2023
    ReviewBooks
    The Two-Parent Privilege — we need to talk about kids with single parents

    Melissa S Kearney looks at how the startling shift affecting American families disadvantages children and exacerbates inequality

  • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
    UK economy
    Income gap between Londoners and rest of UK hits record high

    Average gross disposable income in the capital is 43% higher than the national average

    People pass skyscrapers in the City of London, while others enjoy the view from the side of the River Thames.
  • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
    UK regional policy
    Levelling up agenda has ‘stalled’ under Sunak, says think-tank

    IfG warns flagship policy to bridge regional divides is not a priority for the government

  • Monday, 11 September, 2023
    UK social mobility
    UK youth face being worse off than parents, says social mobility chief

    Regional inequality, London’s housing market and stagnant wages cited as concerns

    Teenagers walking through a city centre
  • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
    UK north-south divide
    Lagging school spending for north of England poses risk to economy, study warns

    MPs and experts say educational attainment in region has been hit by insufficient financial support after Covid

    Uniformed children walking to school
  • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
    UK tax
    Unions boss calls for wealth tax to tackle UK’s ‘rampant’ inequality

    TUC’s Paul Nowak wants ‘national conversation’ on tax in challenge to Labour party

    Paul Nowak, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress
  • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
    Cost of living crisis
    UK living standards predicted to stay squeezed up to election

    Think-tank says higher wages will be offset by rising taxes and mortgage payments

    Commuters near Cannon Street railway station in Londo
  • Tuesday, 25 July, 2023
    Sarah O'Connor
    Globalisation is not to blame for Britain’s insecurity problem

    The country’s precarious low-wage jobs and shortage of affordable housing are hardly the fault of international forces

  • Sunday, 16 July, 2023
    UK interest rates
    Interest rate rises drive biggest postwar fall in UK household wealth

    Tighter monetary policy could have benefits for younger people, says think-tank

    A woman walks along a street in Notting Hill
  • Tuesday, 11 July, 2023
    UK north-south divide
    London and South East gain half of net growth in jobs since 2010

    Regional inequality in the UK ‘without parallel in developed world’, think-tank finds

    Tower Bridge in London
  • Wednesday, 5 July, 2023
    Labour Party UK
    Labour sets out reform of early-years education to break ‘class ceiling’

    Starmer vows to tackle the ‘snobbery’ that leads to workplace inequality with schools plan

    Sir Keir Starmer will outline proposals to modernise the curriculum, so that it better prepares students for the world of work
  • Sunday, 2 July, 2023
    LexUS society
    US incomes: American way of thrive triggers sticker shock Premium content

    Economic indicators suggest the country is more prosperous than 50 years ago but more Americans feel pessimistic

    A shopper carries an Insignia Roku TV television
  • Wednesday, 31 May, 2023
    Shift in government spending has cut UK inequality, study finds

    IFS says increase in health provision, wider access to education and introduction of university fees is behind change

    Students graduating from university
  • Saturday, 27 May, 2023
    Helen Barnard
    Inflation is hitting society’s most vulnerable families hardest

    This cost of living crisis is not a sudden emergency, but the latest chapter in a longer-term story of rising poverty

    A woman works at a food bank distribution centre in Coventry. Volunteers and staff have risen to every challenge, but many are weary to the bone
  • Friday, 14 April, 2023
    More Londoners live in poor quality housing than any other UK region

    Nationally about 6.5mn people live in substandard accommodation, study finds

    View looking over the City of London from Deptford
  • Sunday, 2 April, 2023
    Michael Hastings
    The UK’s criminal records system is failing us all

    Excluding people from the workforce when the economy needs their skills is a block on opportunity

    A man sits on a bed in a jail cell
  • Friday, 31 March, 2023
    Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
    Why are Americans dying so young?

    US life expectancy is in freefall as the young and the poor bear the brunt of struggles for shared prosperity

    Montage image showing lines of a chart going through tombstones
  • Thursday, 30 March, 2023
    Chris Giles
    Lessons from a big bet on poverty statistics

    We rely on substandard measures to understand deprivation in the UK — and our forecasts can be wrong

    Volunteers prepare food in the kitchen of the Kingsland Community Centre in Southampton
  • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
    UK politics
    Plans for UK investment zones set to be scaled back in Budget

    Treasury to ‘catalyse’ limited growth clusters around research bases such as universities

  • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
    UK politics
    Eden Project of the North wins levelling-up funding

    Delayed second round of winning bids announced with promise to ‘reinvigorate’ coastal economies

    An impression of the Eden Project North in Morecambe
  • Sunday, 1 January, 2023
    UK politics
    UK ministers poised to launch £700mn fund to rebuild poorer areas

    Initiative, lobbied for by charities and MPs, expected in new year as part of levelling-up agenda

    Graffiti that reads ‘Fallen Empires Are Running’ in a vacant shop front in Machester, UK
  • Monday, 19 December, 2022
    Inside BusinessPatrick Jenkins
    How poor smart kids could help boost the City

    Financial sector’s social diversity initiative needs more meat but could be important

    Commuters cross London Bridge in the City of London
  • Monday, 12 December, 2022
    Matt Downie
    Impossible choice after impossible choice leads to homelessness

    UK government must design positive policies to alleviate pressure on those who are sinking

    Crisis unveils a 4.3 metre tall sculpture of a homeless person at London King’s Cross station
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