Growth goes down, so what will happen to the deficit?
Alex Hern uses George’s Marvellous Deficit Calculator to examine what the news of GDP contraction means for the government’s flagship deficit reduction program
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The double-dip begins
Tony Dolphin explains why the contraction in the 4th quarter of 2011 is likely to be the beginning of a double dip recession.
Salmond has questions to answer, because the evidence doesn’t support him
William Bain lays out the evidence against a financially viable independent Scotland
What’s right for Aberdeen isn’t for York; unemployment needs city-specific solutions
Paul Swinney of Centre for Cities presents the evidence to demonstrate why potential solutions to the unemployment problem must be focused at a city-wide level.
The environment trumps the debate between a tunnel or a bridge
Darren Johnson details the problems with Boris Johnson’s new plan to build a £700 million tunnel
Introducing George’s Marvellous Deficit Calculator
With George’s Marvellous Deficit Calculator you can predict the deficit in 2012/3 from growth in 2012
When the private sector collapses for a second time
Cormac Hollingsworth looks at what happens when the private sector collapses for a second time. It begins with D and ends with ouble dip recession.
Where next for apprenticeships after the heads of the schemes resign?
Alex Hern reveals the problems at the heart of the government’s apprenticeship scheme
“The PM is wrong: the labour market is very weak”
Richard Exell runs through the latest figures from the labour market, and finds that “it is very weak and the prospects for unemployed people are very poor.”
Cameron needs to start backing our young people and universities
The number of jobless 16 to 24-year-olds has risen by 52,000, to 1.04 million, which is the highest number since records began in 1992, writes UCU’s Sally Hunt.