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Those on low-to-middle incomes now face staggering reductions in real wages...
Despite the government’s stated commitment to fairness, last week’s changes to taxes and benefits will have severe effects on those on low to middle incomes. Gavin Kelly, Chief Executive of the...
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Wage inequality and job polarization show that it is time to be pursuing...
Alan Manning writes that while the very richest have seen their incomes significantly pull away from those on low and middle incomes in the last 30 years, this has not been matched by a rise in the...
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Osborne’s out of touch, Clarkson’s out of order and the British embassy in...
Avery Hancock, Danielle Moran, and Amy Mollett take a look at the week in political blogging. N30 Strike In the lead up to the public sector pensions strike, Liberal Conspiracy refutes the government’s...
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Tough times ahead in 2012 may provide space to question the primacy of growth...
At the close of 2011, British Politics and Policy at LSE asked our contributors for their thoughts on the New Year 2012. In the first post in this series, Mary Evans finds that while, on the surface,...
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Labour must challenge the conventional wisdom of neo-liberalism and...
This week saw Ed Miliband state that Labour was “party for all times, not only a party for good times”. Bart Cammaerts argues that this and other attempts by Labour to reframe itself still opposes the...
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The proposed benefit cap for those out of work means that government expects...
The Welfare Reform Bill is to be debated by the House of Lords later today. One of its most controversial features is a benefit cap of £26,000 for those out of work. Tim Leunig takes a close look at...
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Early action to prevent social problems can offer a triple dividend of...
Even before the riots of August 2011, many people were concerned that policymakers were too frequently coping with the outcomes of social problems rather than the root causes. Anne Power, a member of...
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The potential effect of an ‘economic war’ on the population calls for a...
Economic calamity faces us all, and not just those with vulnerable jobs and incomes. James Lloyd argues that the way in which way government deals with the effect of the ‘economic war’ on society is...
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Water companies should incentivise businesses to use less water and charge...
Tim Leunig argues that Britain has a lot to learn from Western Australians about how to use water effectively. They are generous to people who use relatively little water, while charging those who are...
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British wage inequality: what occupation you have has never mattered so much
Mark Williams looks at how occupations relate to the massive rise in British wage inequality between the mid-1970s and mid-1990s, finding that growing inequality is largely between groups and is driven...
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