Miliband gets it right from top to bottom
A focus on responsibilities of both benefit claimants and the high paid could help the UK economy. Miliband hints at policies that could make a real difference.
Inequality
Progressive council points the way to fairness
The Islington Fairness Commission shows there are concrete things we can do on our own patch to try to close the gap between the rich and poor.
Income inequality fell in Labour’s final year
New statistics show that income inequality fell in Labour’s final year in office. The final set of data show that income inequality was flat over Labour’s time in office.
UK housing market is an engine of inequality
Is the housing market fostering inequality between the generations and across society? Kevin Gulliver gives an evidence based analysis of the current situation.
Does social mobility reduce income inequality?
If you asked most people, they would tell you that in Britain today, mobility is low and inequality is high, writes Lee Savage research and policy analyst at the Resolution Foundation.
How the Mayor could tackle high pay
Darren Johnson, Green Party member of the London Assembly, calls on London Mayor Boris Johnson to explore the idea of using public sector spending power to exert some influence on private sector pay.
IFS: Richest to be hit hardest by tax changes in April
The respected economic think tank, the Institute of Fiscal Studies, have released a sneak preview of their annual ‘Green Budget’, to be launched on Wednesday. What we know so far is that the IFS are saying that tax changes to be brought in in April will cost the richest tenth of households typically 3 per cent of their income, compared to 1 per cent for the general population.
The bonfire of the inequalities
Matthew Lockwood on the aftershocks of the financial crisis that continue to reverberate through real economies and government budgets around the Western world.
Nick Clegg and the social mobility mystery
Nick Clegg used his Hugo Young lecture to unfurl a banner for the “new progressives”. But he chose not to set out what “new progressives” think about the causes of social mobility.
Fighting the cuts and working for women in the days ahead
The Women’s Income Network (WIN) is a network of charities, MPs and individuals who have come together in order to construct an informed and unified response to each and every cut which will disproportionately affect women in the coming months and years. From the Fawcett Society to The Child Poverty Action Group, each participating organisation is working independently to protect those who will be disadvantaged by the coalition’s cuts.