Fifteen years of income stagnation have left families brutally exposed to the current cost-of-living crisis
Real typical household disposable income growth for working age families has slumped to just 0.7 per cent a year in the 15 years leading up…
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Boosting Britain’s cities holds the key to ‘levelling up’ the country, but will require change on a scale not currently being imagined
Britain is beset by persistent economic gaps between different parts of the country, and addressing them requires investment in its major cities on a scale…
Net Zero won’t repeat the job destruction of deindustrialisation – but it will mean significant change for 1.3 million workers in emissions-intensive jobs
The UK’s decarbonisation drive will involve major change across the economy, particularly for the 1.3 million workers in carbon-intensive ‘brown’ jobs who will need to…
Retirements will hit a record high this decade – but so too will the number of young people starting their careers
The number of people ending their working lives by reaching the State Pension Age (SPA) is set to reach a record high over the coming…
Decline of early parenthood behind youth worklessness tumbling by over a quarter since mid-1990s – but increased long-term worklessness among young men risks putting progress into reverse
The share of young people who are workless has fallen by over a quarter since the mid-1990s, when it was a major social and economic…
Britain’s pandemic recovery has reduced employment and house price gaps, but left outer London behind
The Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath has slightly reduced employment and house price gaps across Britain, but hasn’t reduced wider economic divides, while ethnically diverse…
‘Levelling up’ means giving people more reasons to visit their town or city centre – and more chances to move to other places
A meaningful ‘levelling up’ agenda cannot be limited to new tech hubs and hanging baskets on high streets, and should focus instead on improving town…
Young people have returned to work rapidly – but many have returned to insecure jobs and 50,000 young men have dropped out altogether
Young people have returned to work rapidly, with unemployment now lower than pre-pandemic levels, but problems persist, with one-in-three 18-34-year-olds returning to atypical, often insecure…
Britain’s porous safety net fails to protect the poorest or workers facing big economic disruption
The evolution of Britain’s welfare state since its post-war creation leaves it providing a weak safety net that sees far too many people fall into…
Pandemic-driven shifts have made the workforce smaller, younger and more female
The pandemic has not led to mass unemployment as many feared, but has instead driven wider shifts that have increased employment among younger women, but…