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  • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
    UK politics & policy
    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 & policy
    Eden Project of the North wins levelling-up funding

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

  • Sunday, 1 January, 2023
    UK politics & policy
    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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Monday, 28 November, 2022
    Katherine Chapman
    Decent pay gives us healthy, productive workers

    The business case for better pay and secure hours is compelling — improved recruitment, retention, employee relations and reputational enhancement

  • Friday, 18 November, 2022
    Autumn Statement
    ‘New era’ of higher taxes beckons for UK, warn think-tanks

    Resolution Foundation points to wage stagnation, while IFS says fiscal rules only just met by £55bn squeeze

  • Friday, 18 November, 2022
    Autumn Statement
    Hunt rejects claims fiscal squeeze targets middle earners

    New data indicate UK will endure longest period of wage stagnation for two centuries

  • Tuesday, 25 October, 2022
    FT Wealth
    ‘Diaspora philanthropists’ aim to help revival of UK regions

    Networks of entrepreneurs with links to deprived communities are being harnessed as investors and business role models

  • Friday, 21 October, 2022
    Cost of living crisis
    Britons take dim view of political turmoil as cost of living soars

    ‘You can see the weight on people’s shoulders and in their faces’

  • Wednesday, 19 October, 2022
    News in-depthUK schools
    ‘There is such high need’: Teachers step in as UK cost of living crisis bites

    Rising hardship in schools risks exacerbating educational inequality and hampering pupils’ long-term prospects

  • Tuesday, 4 October, 2022
    Sarah O'Connor
    Making the poor poorer is a false economy

    Better than cutting benefits would be to get tough on the causes of welfare spending

  • Tuesday, 27 September, 2022
    Sarah O'Connor
    Kwarteng’s policies won’t get inactive Britain working again

    The labour force needs investment in health, social care and childcare

  • Friday, 23 September, 2022
    UK business & economy
    High earners reap the rewards as Kwarteng ditches redistribution

    Tax cuts for businesses and the better-off questioned by economists and draw furious reaction from Labour

  • Friday, 16 September, 2022
    Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
    Britain and the US are poor societies with some very rich people

    When it comes to average household incomes, the UK may soon need to ask migrant labourers to take a pay cut

  • Thursday, 1 September, 2022
    Cost of living crisis
    UK fuel poverty to hit 12mn homes without ‘immediate’ action

    End Fuel Poverty Coalition urges next PM to swiftly help households cope with soaring energy bills

  • Wednesday, 31 August, 2022
    Cost of living crisis
    UK faces ‘humanitarian crisis’ with children’s lives at risk

    Health experts call on government to intervene over rising energy bills and falling living standards

  • Monday, 29 August, 2022
    Rana Foroohar
    Everyone pays the cost as the rich keep spending

    Wealthy Americans may be helping to drive inflation and the financialisation of the economy

  • Monday, 22 August, 2022
    Sam Freedman
    The truth is that schools do little to reduce inequality

    Education cannot compensate for the failure to implement redistributive social policies

  • Monday, 15 August, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    Educational inequalities in England barely improve in two decades, study finds

    Institute for Fiscal Studies research shows family background still a main driver in performance at school and later life

  • Sunday, 7 August, 2022
    News in-depthCost of living crisis
    Charities underpin the UK’s social safety net as cost of living crisis bites

    Government warned that relying on voluntary sector to fill gaps risks entrenching deep-rooted inequalities

  • Wednesday, 6 July, 2022
    Dan Corry
    Philanthropists should get on and give

    The UK is experiencing the worst in-work poverty since records began. Charitable donors must step in

  • Sunday, 3 July, 2022
    Cost of living crisis
    Low UK income growth leaves families ‘brutally exposed’ to surging inflation

    Resolution Foundation finds renters, single parents and those with young children to be most vulnerable

  • Tuesday, 14 June, 2022
    Fewer than one in 10 men in UK likely to reach retirement in good health

    IPPR report shows strong link between economic deprivation and levels of illness

  • Saturday, 11 June, 2022
    Jane Green
    Rising economic insecurity is the real danger to the Conservative majority

    Rather than class or income, it’s how people feel when facing a harsh economic climate that governs their choice in elections

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