IPPR, the Institute for Public Policy Research, is the UK’s leading progressive think tank.
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Our analysis of 22 countries reveals that tax-funded healthcare systems have lower admin costs compared to insurance-based healthcare systems.
Administrative costs consume 2.2 per cent of health spending in tax-funded systems compared to 3.5 per cent in insurance systems.
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‘We are the most regionally unbalanced country in the EU’
IPPR Research Fellow @graceblakeley speaks about regional inequality and infrastructure on #bbcqt
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🚨 Revealed – Lockdown measures are protecting landlords, banks and lenders more than the families they are meant to benefit
Our new report shows the poorest are unfairly shouldering the greatest economic risk (thread) bit.ly/IPPRrent
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Wealth is twice as unequally distributed as income, so why are we taxing income so much more than wealth?
@graceblakeley explains why we need a complete overhaul of the wealth tax system bit.ly/31coTgM #WealthMonth
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Today we launch a major Environmental Justice Commission with cross-party chairs @Ed_Miliband, @CarolineLucas & @Laura_Sandys
The Commission will set out an ambitious plan for a UK Green New Deal to tackle climate change and wider societal injustices
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The economy is not working for everyone.
But we forget it’s of human design. We can change things.
Read the Commission on Economic Justice final report for the plan for a new economy ippr.org/cej #EconomicJustice
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🚨 NEW: IPPR analysis shows the poorest households get just £120 help in #SpringStatement, while the richest are handed a £480 boost
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"When we're told that spending cuts are inevitable, that's simply not the case" says @carysroberts on @Channel4News
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More politicians from working-class backgrounds are needed to stop voters feeling 'disconnected' and as if politicians are 'not on their side' - even if that's a nightmare for Hansard reporters
@Telegraph reports @AngelaRayner speech #IPPRdemocracy event
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We are delighted to announce that Lord Victor Adebowale (@Voa1234) has been appointed as the new chair of trustees at IPPR.
It’s hugely exciting that such a dynamic contributor to our civil society is prepared to lead our Board at this pivotal moment.
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Meet Eddie and Rita – they both pay different amounts of tax, but earn the same amount 🤔
Why? Income from hard work is taxed more than income from wealth and assets
This is unjust. The tax system needs reform 👇
bit.ly/JustTax
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Austerity has failed. Crime is up, rough sleeping has doubled, poverty is on the rise and health inequalities are expanding.
There is an alternative. Our new report calls for the UK to end austerity and become an 'investment state'
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'We're in the middle of a housing crisis, we've got a massive problem with homelessness' yet the rich list is dominated by those with unimaginable property wealth - @graceblakeley reacts to the Sunday Times rich list on #Marr
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It's no surprise that representatives from working class backgrounds are more likely to support measures to tackle inequality says @AngelaRayner
We need to encourage more people from my and other diverse backgrounds into politics she tells #IPPRdemocracy event
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‘It’s not just about building more homes, it’s about who they are being built for. Houses can’t just be assets for the rich.
We need to de-commodify the economy” says @AyoCaesar at IPPR’s #bigtent19 panel
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Net zero must deliver a people's dividend
Action must be rooted in fairness, be shaped by public consultation and help tackle inequality
Read the Environmental Justice Commission final report blueprint for a fair transition to net zero bit.ly/IPPRn0 #IPPRNetZero
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There is no such thing as a #mutantAlgorithm. The exam problem was its human design 🧑💻
Algorithms are useful tools, but can replicate the biases of the humans that create them and reinforce existing inequalities. Find out more ⤵️
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Breaking - The government has updated the rules on coronavirus furlough today...
Now parents can be paid for looking after their children if they can't combine this with work.
IPPR called for paid parental leave last week.
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🚨🚗⚡️ | NEW: Shifting to electric vehicles isn’t enough - public transport, walking and cycling need a greater role
An #EV focused decarbonisation plan would see a 28% rise in car use by 2050 and less space for nature
We need a target to cut car use 🧵
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Around 75,000 public assets, worth about £15bn, have been sold by English councils since 2010. Eventually they will run out of buildings to sell and the problem of underfunding will still be there.
@zoe_billingham spoke to the Guardian ⤵️
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Just 2 of UK’s 10 wealthiest people are among @thetimes top 10 taxpayers list 🤔
Clearly the tax system isn't fit for purpose. An overhaul, so that the wealthiest make their proper contribution, is long overdue bit.ly/JustTax
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Work is no longer a guaranteed way out of poverty. Our analysis last year revealed that a record 1 in 6 working households now face poverty 📈
Today's benefit sanctions announcement won't help these people, it will just force more people into low-paid work
"The best way to get out of poverty is for people to be working"
Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey tell #KayBurley it's "very unlikely" children will live in poverty if both their parents have jobs.
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🚨NEW REPORT: There's a systematic correlation between wealth, poverty, social conditions and people's health and life expectancy in the UK
It's time for government to treat reducing these material disparities as a public health priority
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Congratulations to @carysroberts & @rachelstatham_ who have both been recruited into the Downing Street Policy Unit!
We're sad to see them go, but delighted to announce that @harry_qp has been appointed interim executive director.
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The UK faces a 'ticking timebomb' of missed cancer cases as new @thesundaytimes figures reveal 350,000 patients have not been referred to hospital
Senior fellow @cthomasippr says urgent action is needed to tackle the backlog | story by @andrewgregory
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Our polling shows that there is a growing cross-party consensus in favour of social care free at the point of need, funded out of general taxation
There is also a massive majority in support of a pay rise for care workers ippr.org/blog/ippr-policy-ex…
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We are entering an age of unprecedented environmental breakdown, warns new IPPR report #ThisIsACrisis
Damage to land, soil, air, water and animal populations alongside climate change is creating catastrophic global risk. ippr.org/research/publicatio…
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An avoidable crisis. The findings of Baroness Doreen Lawrence's review match our conclusions that structural racism underpins the disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on ethnic minorities
Leaders must now use this information to make policy and save lives
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Brexit deal leaves workers’ rights & environmental protections at serious risk of erosion, new IPPR paper warns today
It's better than ‘no deal’ but leaves wide scope for key rights and duties to be rolled back in UK
Read full @MarleyAMorris analysis👇
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The economy is not like a household budget. Analogies like 'maxing out the credit card' are inappropriate
Today we've published a letter from 24 leading economists, calling on the BBC to avoid using these analogies when reporting on the economy
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Inflation coming down doesn’t mean lower prices – it means that prices are still rising, just not as fast. Today’s data doesn’t herald the end of the cost-of-living crisis by any stretch of the imagination.
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Cutting national insurance is only going to benefit the average employee by £5.86 per week.
Hunt would have been better off spending the £10.1bn on improving public services.
Read more: ippr.org/media-office/reveal…
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"The reasons why race and ethnicity are determinants of covid outcomes are societal, not genetic"
IPPR's @pathwithanr dispels the myths around the sharply higher Covid-19 risk among minority ethnic groups on @Channel4News bit.ly/ippr_rt
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Don't blame Corbyn - polls show only Tory voters could have kept us in EU - by John Curtice newstatesman.com/politics/st…
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Imagine. Imagine the better world we can build together.
Let’s go faster, further and fairer to tackle the climate and nature crisis
Read the interim report of the cross-party IPPR Environmental Justice Commission here bit.ly/EJCinterim #EJC
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It's not right that people whose income comes from wealth are taxed less than those whose income comes from work.
Harmonising #CGT with income tax would generate billions for the Treasury.
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'If socialism in one country was ever possible, it certainly isn’t now' - @johnmcdonnellMP calls for a new internationalism at the launch of the IPPR Centre for #EconomicJustice
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The climate movement has broken into the mainstream says @CarolineLucas announcing the launch of the cross-party IPPR #EnvironmentalJustice Commission bit.ly/2GR7H8z
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🚨 | New report: The UK is getting poorer and sicker. This paper sets out to quantify whether better health is the best medicine for our most deep-rooted economic challenges.
Read the full #HealthAndProsperity report here: bit.ly/ippr-report
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⏰ | NEW REPORT: A stark divide in health & wealth throughout the UK is leaving many ‘bad health blackspots’ sicker and poorer than their neighbours. Our latest paper looks at the causes behind this divide, & proposes ambitious solutions.
Read here ⤵️
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NEW polling shows that 69% of Brits think income from wealth should be taxed at same level or higher than earnings from work (bit.ly/2nlSOnp)
No wonder... the tax system is unfair and favours the wealthy. Our video on making tax just👇👀
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💷 NEW REPORT: In this paper we debunk some of the myths around taxes. We show:
👉The UK's 'record' tax levels are unremarkable internationally
👉Higher taxes can enable better living standards
👉Voters support higher taxes if they're spent on services
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We need to face up to the reality of environmental breakdown #ThisIsACrisis and a transformational response is required.
Find out more ippr.org/environmentalbreakd…
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Thrilled for all the members of IPPR's family, past and present, who have been elected into Parliament for the first time!
Congratulations and good luck to:
- Luke Murphy
- Kirsty McNeill
- Miatta Fahnbulleh
- Luke Myer
- Chris Murray
- Yuan Yang
- Hamish Falconer
- Sarah Smith
- Josh Simons
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The evidence is ever clearer: a fairer country is a healthier country, and a healthier
country is a more prosperous country. Yet, we are getting sicker and poorer.
Better health needs to be a keystone of the UK’s economic recovery.
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🚨 BIG NEWS - The new IPPR Director is Carys Roberts
Our highly talented chief economist will now lead our progressive policy making in the 2020s
We can't wait for @carysroberts to get started! 🥳🎉🙌
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"You cannot have a situation where, under a Labour government, child poverty numbers just go up and up and up" says @GordonBrown.
🎲 Our proposal to tax gambling companies to pay to cut the two-child limit is "surely the right thing to do" says the former PM and chancellor.
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David Cameron has updated his memoirs to claim his #austerity agenda helped prepare the UK for Covid-19
Our research has shown this is not true 🙅
Austerity ripped the resilience out of the health and care service - just look at the unsafe bed levels as the virus hit 👀
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🚨 NEW REPORT: Covid-19 ethnic inequalities are playing out again
Together with the @RunnymedeTrust we are urging the government to take action to better protect ethnic minority communities in the second wave
Reported on @Channel4News just how
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"When I was growing up getting a job was your route out of poverty - but that's no longer the case" @SaraBryson1 talking to @JustinWelby about today's report
#economicjustice
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Extending the Universal Credit £20 per week increase by 6 months isn't enough. Why not extended it permanently and make the whole system more generous?
Even with the uplift, the UK still has one of the least generous social security systems in the OECD #UC #Budget2021
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If you get cancer, the NHS will cover your care costs, but if you're diagnosed with dementia you'll likely have to pay yourself.
The principle of 'free at the point of need' must be extended from the NHS to the social care system. @harry_qp explains why bit.ly/2HysFcF
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"We've seen this right wing attack that has turned this phrase 'woke' into a tool to demonise something most of the general public agree with and turn them against it"
Speaking at #IPPRWebinar @DavidLammy says the 'culture war' isn't real, but a tool used to divide
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Great idea - there's 130 private schools in London alone with vast grounds that people could be using 🚶♀️🚲
We've also called for owners of private green spaces to open access, particularly in urban areas 👉bit.ly/IPPRcotp
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🗣️ “If gambling firms can afford sky-high pay-outs and sponsorships, they can afford to help fund the war on child poverty.” - @GordonBrown for today's Guardian.
Our latest report lays out exactly how to make gambling taxes fairer ippr.org/articles/reforming-…
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‘There’s a fundamental inequality between those who are able to get their income from wealth and assets and those who have to work for their income.
We need to rebalance power in the economy’ - @graceblakeley at IPPR #Lab19 fringe
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🚨 New analysis - 71% of EU migrants now classed as 'key workers' would not have qualified for a work visa under the new immigration system
Findings from @MarleyAMorris for @TheEconomist show the need to urgently rethink the #ImmigrationBill
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❤️🩹 REPORT: The UK is the sick man of Europe. The IPPR Commission on Health & Prosperity has spent the last three years diagnosing the problem & developing the medicine. Today we launch the most ambitious blueprint for the nation's health since Beveridge.
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🚨NEW: As inflation has soared, wage earners have been losing out while many firms’ profit margins have increased
Our new paper with @Cmmonwealth argues that profit restraint measures must be part of the policy toolkit to tackle inflation. Thread 1/5 bit.ly/IPPRcw
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🚨 Revealed: Working family poverty is now at a record high this century, fuelled by spiralling housing costs and childcare challenges
1 in 6 working households now face poverty
It's time to end the scourge of in-work poverty
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Our immediate analysis of today's #AutumnStatement shows that for every £100 Jeremy Hunt spent on personal tax cuts, £46 will benefit the richest fifth of households. Only £3 of every £100 of tax cuts announced in the #budget will go to the worst-off families.
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"We are living longer but becoming sicker sooner. That is terrible for quality of life. It is also terrible for the economy, for the labour market, and for the financial sustainability of our health and care service" says @wesstreeting
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BP have just announced profits of £2bn. But instead of investing those profits in the green transition, they are transferring it straight to their shareholders.
For every £1 BP spent on ‘low carbon investments’ they rewarded shareholders £9 through share buybacks.
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Reminder: the National Insurance tax cut primarily benefits the wealthiest individuals #Budget2020 #Budget
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'A no-deal Brexit means economic chaos' and 'the most vulnerable would be affected most' says Gordon Brown (@OfficeGSBrown) at today's IPPR and @hopenothate event
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🚨🚨 Revealed: value of top 6 tech firms has soared $1.9 TRILLION during the pandemic
A complete rethink of how digital data is collected, owned & used is needed urgently to prevent a handful of tech firms dominating people’s lives for decades to come bit.ly/IPPRdigi
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We didn’t get a 38 hour week and 28 days statutory leave by chance. We got there through campaigning, union bargaining and policy.
Working time can be reduced again
We welcome @johnmcdonnellMP's plan to do so. @carysroberts explains how it can be done 👇
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Wealth is overwhelmingly concentrated in the South East.
Our latest report reveals how taxing income from wealth less than income from work deepens the North-South divide.
We propose a once-in-a-generation reform to our tax system in this report: ippr.org/articles/supporting…
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No. He really doesn't
The UK still has considerable scope for additional borrowing and should be investing more to secure the economic recovery
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Not only can we overcome the climate and nature crises, but action to address them can create jobs, improve lives, and enhance health and wellbeing
The Environmental Justice Commission final report is a people-powered plan to do just that #IPPRNetZero 🧵
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Why is Spain's inflation lower than the UK's? Spain capped energy prices by more than the UK, lowered the cost of public transport, taxed excess profits and put in place limits on how much landlords can raise rents, writes @carsjung
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The UK has vowed to cut emissions by 78% by 2035, but new @GreenAllianceUK research shows current plans will deliver less than a quarter of the cuts needed to get us on track
Ambitious targets require ambitious policy! There is no time to waste ⌛️🌍🔥
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The climate crisis will mean more harm than the immediate impacts of heatwaves, floods and storms - these events ripple out and can disrupt whole societies
As current leaders dither on action, the millennial generation must prepare to lead in a destabilised future - Thread 1/
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The UK is one of the most unequal countries in the developed world
This is made worse by our unfair tax system, where income from hard work is taxed more highly than income derived from wealth
IPPR found ending this injustice can raise £90bn over 5 yrs
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We must make sure there is never a repeat of the Windrush Scandal
@AmreenQureshi_ sets out our new report’s blueprint for ending the Hostile Environment for good bit.ly/IPPRbhe
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🚨New report launch🚨
After turmoil caused by the 'mini budget', it's time to rethink sensible fiscal policy.
Our new paper challenges the idea that spending cuts are inevitable & sets out a blueprint to stabilise the economy + support public services.
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⏰ | NEW BLOG: The public know that climate change is a major long-term risk to their family and community and are waiting for leadership, argues @Samfr.
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Universal Credit urgently needs fundamental re-engineering - the two child limit and benefits cap has pushed the most vulnerable into poverty, destitution and debt
We welcome @UKLabour's plan to reform UC, says @claremcneil1 | our analysis 👉bit.ly/ipprcpag
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📣 | NEW REPORT: Our current social security system neither prevents poverty nor supports people into meaningful work. In this paper with @changing_r, we lay out a series of quick policy fixes to create a social security system fit for the 21st century.
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Nostalgia for Britain's imperial past is fuelling a dangerous white supremacist mindset that we all need to be vigilant against. Check out @NadineElEnany on 'the next British empire' for #ProgressiveReview - FREE to view for 2 weeks 🎉: bit.ly/2mdBlcV
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'The idea that we offload this onto young people is in my opinion a moral atrocity'
@NaomiAKlein tells @Ed_Miliband people of all ages have to be engaged in the climate movement
adding "At least the young people will be able to run!"
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Critical theory has failed to understand the true nature of capitalism.
Check out Nancy Fraser in conversation with @AnnPettifor : onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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📢 | NEW REPORT: Britain has lost over one-third of its manufacturing strengths since the 1990s. But the net zero transition presents a perfect opportunity to revitalise UK manufacturing. In this paper we look at the products Britain should be building.
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🚨NEW REPORT: Immigration enforcement under the #HostileEnvironment is excessive & ineffective:
👎🏼 Drives people to destitution
❌ Mistakenly affects people with legal status (eg Windrush)
🙅🏾♂ Fosters racial profiling
🧵THREAD ⤵️
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NEW: Speaking at an IPPR webinar, shadow justice secretary @DavidLammy announces that a Labour government would legislate to put the UN Convention on Children’s Rights into UK law #IPPRWebinar
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It's time for new open-ended tenancies and a ban on private landlords evicting renters without good reason, says new IPPR report.
Sweeping reforms needed to make millions of families more secure in their homes - hard-pressed millennials among them.
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If the chancellor were to cut 2p off National Insurance contributions at the Budget, this would cost £10.4 billion in 2024/25.
Almost half of that give-away would end up in the pockets of the richest fifth of households, while a meagre 3% would benefit the poorest fifth.
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NEW > Today we propose a fundamental reform of the economy on the scale of Attlee &Thatcher reforms ippr.org/research/publicatio… #EconomicJustice
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Research shows that everyone is better off when the rewards of the economy are fairly shared. A fairer economy, is a stronger economy, says @JustinWelby
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🚨 | NEW REPORT: The anti-poverty and environmental movements must unite in common cause
We've been working with @jrf_uk & @zeroc_official
to explore the risks and benefits of the net zero transition for those living in poverty
🧵Here's what we found bit.ly/FairNet0
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‘If socialism in one country was ever possible, it certainly isn’t now. There is an urgent need for those of us on the left to work together in rescuing the concept of internationalism’ - @johnmcdonnellMP speaking at the launch of the IPPR Centre for Economic Justice
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We need a revolution in climate leadership
Our Environmental Justice Commission will set out a plan to deliver a rapid and fair transition to a green, sustainable and more equal economy bit.ly/2GR7H8z
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How can movements for economic and social justice achieve meaningful change?
There is a risk that a lot of 'activity' is done, but it doesn't create lasting change. Understanding how movements succeed is vital for addressing injustice
🧵THREAD of insights from our new report 1/
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The welfare inequalities revealed by the pandemic show why the UK must modernise the welfare state
We’re launching a year-long review into how we can future-proof social security for the decades of disruption ahead bit.ly/IPPRfws
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📢 | NEW REPORT: Contrary to claims made by the government and others, a real-terms pay rise for public sector workers would not meaningfully increase inflation, shows our new analysis.
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🚨 NEW - IPPR and @Policy_Exchange jointly call for a cross-party social care solution based on the principal that it should be free at the point of use
New POLLING reveals growing cross-party support for reforms and funding for social care (Thread👇)
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Over one million people do not have access to a social safety net
No one should face destitution just because of the conditions on their visa. @AmreenQureshi_ explains why NRPF is so damaging bit.ly/IPPRnrpf
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IPPR and @Cmmonwealth are jointly calling for any airline bailout to include strong conditions for protecting workers and the environment
In responding to the #CoronaCrisis we can build a fairer and more sustainable future economy for all bit.ly/2U8QFt1
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Education Minister Nick Gibb MP tells #r4today that only 100,000 laptops have been distributed to disadvantaged children. Back in March we identified up to 1 Million children without digital access. This #digitaldivide needs urgently closing.
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Just look at all the possible areas for woodland creation across the country! 🌳🌲🌿
Our analysis shows 46,000 jobs could be created in extending woodland and restoring peatland - vital for tackling the #ClimateCrisis and kick-starting the economy bit.ly/IPPRgreen
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