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    • Friday, 31 March, 2023
      Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
      Why are Americans dying so young?

      US life expectancy is in freefall as the young and the poor bear the brunt of struggles for shared prosperity

    • Thursday, 30 March, 2023
      Chris Giles
      Lessons from a big bet on poverty statistics

      We rely on substandard measures to understand deprivation in the UK — and our forecasts can be wrong

    • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
      UK politics & policy
      Plans for UK investment zones set to be scaled back in Budget

      Treasury to ‘catalyse’ limited growth clusters around research bases such as universities

    • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
      UK politics & policy
      Eden Project of the North wins levelling-up funding

      Delayed second round of winning bids announced with promise to ‘reinvigorate’ coastal economies

    • Sunday, 1 January, 2023
      UK politics & policy
      UK ministers poised to launch £700mn fund to rebuild poorer areas

      Initiative, lobbied for by charities and MPs, expected in new year as part of levelling-up agenda

    • Monday, 19 December, 2022
      Inside BusinessPatrick Jenkins
      How poor smart kids could help boost the City

      Financial sector’s social diversity initiative needs more meat but could be important

    • Monday, 12 December, 2022
      Matt Downie
      Impossible choice after impossible choice leads to homelessness

      UK government must design positive policies to alleviate pressure on those who are sinking

    • Monday, 28 November, 2022
      Katherine Chapman
      Decent pay gives us healthy, productive workers

      The business case for better pay and secure hours is compelling — improved recruitment, retention, employee relations and reputational enhancement

    • Friday, 18 November, 2022
      Autumn Statement
      ‘New era’ of higher taxes beckons for UK, warn think-tanks

      Resolution Foundation points to wage stagnation, while IFS says fiscal rules only just met by £55bn squeeze

    • Friday, 18 November, 2022
      Autumn Statement
      Hunt rejects claims fiscal squeeze targets middle earners

      New data indicate UK will endure longest period of wage stagnation for two centuries

    • Tuesday, 25 October, 2022
      FT Wealth
      ‘Diaspora philanthropists’ aim to help revival of UK regions

      Networks of entrepreneurs with links to deprived communities are being harnessed as investors and business role models

    • Friday, 21 October, 2022
      Cost of living crisis
      Britons take dim view of political turmoil as cost of living soars

      ‘You can see the weight on people’s shoulders and in their faces’

    • Wednesday, 19 October, 2022
      News in-depthUK schools
      ‘There is such high need’: Teachers step in as UK cost of living crisis bites

      Rising hardship in schools risks exacerbating educational inequality and hampering pupils’ long-term prospects

    • Tuesday, 4 October, 2022
      Sarah O'Connor
      Making the poor poorer is a false economy

      Better than cutting benefits would be to get tough on the causes of welfare spending

    • Tuesday, 27 September, 2022
      Sarah O'Connor
      Kwarteng’s policies won’t get inactive Britain working again

      The labour force needs investment in health, social care and childcare

    • Friday, 23 September, 2022
      UK business & economy
      High earners reap the rewards as Kwarteng ditches redistribution

      Tax cuts for businesses and the better-off questioned by economists and draw furious reaction from Labour

    • Friday, 16 September, 2022
      Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
      Britain and the US are poor societies with some very rich people

      When it comes to average household incomes, the UK may soon need to ask migrant labourers to take a pay cut

    • Thursday, 1 September, 2022
      Cost of living crisis
      UK fuel poverty to hit 12mn homes without ‘immediate’ action

      End Fuel Poverty Coalition urges next PM to swiftly help households cope with soaring energy bills

    • Wednesday, 31 August, 2022
      Cost of living crisis
      UK faces ‘humanitarian crisis’ with children’s lives at risk

      Health experts call on government to intervene over rising energy bills and falling living standards

    • Monday, 29 August, 2022
      Rana Foroohar
      Everyone pays the cost as the rich keep spending

      Wealthy Americans may be helping to drive inflation and the financialisation of the economy

    • Monday, 22 August, 2022
      Sam Freedman
      The truth is that schools do little to reduce inequality

      Education cannot compensate for the failure to implement redistributive social policies

    • Monday, 15 August, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      Educational inequalities in England barely improve in two decades, study finds

      Institute for Fiscal Studies research shows family background still a main driver in performance at school and later life

    • Sunday, 7 August, 2022
      News in-depthCost of living crisis
      Charities underpin the UK’s social safety net as cost of living crisis bites

      Government warned that relying on voluntary sector to fill gaps risks entrenching deep-rooted inequalities

    • Wednesday, 6 July, 2022
      Dan Corry
      Philanthropists should get on and give

      The UK is experiencing the worst in-work poverty since records began. Charitable donors must step in

    • Sunday, 3 July, 2022
      Cost of living crisis
      Low UK income growth leaves families ‘brutally exposed’ to surging inflation

      Resolution Foundation finds renters, single parents and those with young children to be most vulnerable

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