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Publications
- Briefing: Spending Review 2015
- The First 100 Days
- Briefing: Manifesto summary - the smaller parties
- Election 2015: What’s at stake for social security?
- Election 2015: What’s at stake for the economy?
- The Great British Rip Off
- In the public interest
- Reconstruction after the Crisis: A Manifesto for Collective Bargaining
- Boom-time for legal loan sharks
- In Place of Fear
- Duty to care
- Financing the Social State
- The Case for Universalism
- Exposing the Myths of Welfare
Blog
- Young Parents Trapped By Welfare System
- Labour Market Realities: Growing Precarity for Housing Workers
- The Problem With In-Work Poverty
- We Won’t Eradicate Poverty Until We Understand It
- Autumn Statement 2016: Reactions from Our Panel
- The 2016 Autumn Statement: Tackling Inequality, or Business as Usual?
- Tim Roache: Britain at a Crossroads
- How serious is the new Prime Minister and her government about making the country work for everyone
- Day 5: Economic growth and youth prospects by region
- Day 2: International students
- 4 Reasons Grammar Schools are a Bad Idea
- Brexit induced xenophobia and racism: how bad is it and what needs to be done?
- Lloyds cuts 3,000 jobs: where’s the accountability?
- 4 reasons why negotiating new trade deals won’t be easy after Brexit
- Theresa May’s brand of inequality
- Brexit: The new class war?
- Putting inequality back on the centre-left agenda
- Tax and the wealthy: the tip of a very unhealthy iceberg
- Poverty and prosperity sit side-by-side in British cities
- The increase to the minimum wage should be welcomed, but the fight against inequality is being lost
- Budget 2016: The reaction from our panel
- What can we expect from today’s budget?
- Looking ahead: what Class did next
- How our social security system holds back low-paid workers
- Why the Lords’ defeat of the government’s attempt to redefine child poverty is important
- How can we help the wealthy part with their wealth?
- Spending Review 2015: Still failing to invest in women’s security
- Spending review 2015: Our Panel’s Reaction
- Spending review 2015: Your Guide
- Our study shows that economic recession leads to increased levels of suicide
- Benefit advisers in foodbanks: a backwards step
- Tax credit cuts and the Living Wage: Do the numbers stack up?
- Low-paid workers – worse off next year and even worse off in 2020
- Cutting vital income and stigmatising the low paid? The Conservatives are no workers’ party
- Against Aspiration
- Enabling Aspiration
- Young people’s debts have doubled in five years and are now highest of all age groups
- How the Conservatives are ‘strengthening’ child poverty measures in the UK
- Five ways to deliver a good budget
- Budget 2015: Our panel’s reaction
- With this budget, the Chancellor is taking us into unknown territory
- Child poverty: all not quite what it seems?
- Child benefit and the fight against poverty
- The Queen’s Speech: our panel’s reaction
- Cameron’s new crusade against criminal wage-workers
- Five ways to deal with a full blown Conservative Government
- First 100 Days - Eradicating Poverty
- Political action must be taken to eliminate food banks from the national landscape
- Labour and Conservatives: the manifestos
- The government’s evidence-free policy on benefit sanctions
- Budget 2015: Our panellists give their reaction
- Storify: the top reactions to #Budget2015
- What to expect from the 2015 budget
- Don’t believe the hype: average income has not returned to pre-crisis levels
- Reversing the rising poverty tide requires fundamental change
- The advantages of a new house building programme are enormous
- How can we reduce the need for food banks?
- Autumn Statement 2014: Seven thinkers share their views
- Conservative Party Conference: The view from the library next door
- The link between the rise of food banks and the rolling back of the welfare state
- Thomas Piketty talks inequality and politics with Class
- Low pay and increased job insecurity: the state of single parent employment
- Securing the future of our public services
- The Bedroom tax by numbers
- Fighting austerity: why we need to talk about human rights
- The key to reducing inequality? Stronger trade unions
- What to make of the IPPR report
- Storify: Thomas Piketty in conversation with Lord Stewart Wood
- Sanctioning job seekers who refuse zero-hours contracts is counterproductive
- To tackle the Great British Rip Off, we must end zero-hours contracts
- VIDEO: The Great British Rip Off
- Why soaring wage inequality in the UK should worry everyone
- Why Britain needs to end hunger fast
- What can we expect from Budget 2014?
- Paying the highest price: Austerity will accelerate area health inequalities
- Join me to debate The Great British Rip Off in Newcastle this evening
- Whose recovery is it?
- Inequality – not just bad, it’s bad economics too
- The Living Wage Commission will examine the reality of low pay in Britain
- UK: manifestly inadequate
- Where are the stories about in-work poverty?
- What would a further £25bn of spending cuts mean for child poverty?
- The British left can be empowered by Obama’s speech on the economy
- Our big challenge - Solidarity in the face of insecurity
- There are some things too important to be left to the market
- Households are being excluded from the benefits of growth
- The market is broken
- Attacks on legal aid will mean access to justice is only for the rich
- The Socialist Way
- Zero hours: full time work without a full time job
- No real economic change will be felt until income inequality is reduced
- How the Government is creating a climate of fear for migrants and ethnic minorities
- The government needs to take the growth of payday lenders more seriously
- The Spending Review: nasty politics not real economics
- In place of fear: It’s time to tackle alarming health inequalities
- Mervyn King’s rosy recovery prediction means little for a shattered nation
- Involuntary idleness represents a massive waste of economic resources
- We need to challenge the myths that poison attempts at progressive change
- It’s time for new priorities to tackle want
