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IES & abrdn Financial Fairness Trust have launched the final report for the Commission on the Future of Employment Support at a Westminster event this morning. Minister for Employment Alison McGovern, delivered the keynote speech. Read the report: bit.ly/4evMb6d 1/3

A result of 2 years of consultation & evidence-gathering on employment support, the report sets out proposals for once-in-a-generation reform to boost growth & raise living standards. It makes detailed proposals to raise participation in the labour force & boost productivity. 2/3

🧵 (long) Amber Nicole Thurman is dead. Amber was the mother of a 6 yr old boy who took legally obtained abortion pills and developed a rare complication when her uterus did not expel all the fetal tissue from her body. She tried to get through it, but began to bleed 1/

Jonathan Portes Nicola Woolcock Terrible article. That ‘would have been 16.2%’ needs to be followed by an *if* without which it’s meaningless.

On GB News tonight with Jacob Rees-Mogg discussing how inadequate spending - particularly 2011-18, lack of capital investment and insufficient focus on primary care & prevention have led to current problems in the NHS

Yes, the NHS has been beaten by austerity, the pandemic and misguided reform. But the fundamental model is not the problem. A move to an insurance based system will not solve any of our problems. The answer is in prevention. 📺 Ashwin Kumar speaking to Jacob Rees-Mogg ⤵️

1/7 Following over a decade of languishing living standards and rising food bank use, government plans for a new child poverty strategy are hugely welcome. But what policies could be in scope and how should they prioritise? A new blog from me: ippr.org/articles/break…

Charlotte Hennessy’s dad Jimmy was killed at Hillsborough when she was just six-years-old. She says today’s announcement about a Hillsborough Law is the best way to honour him and all of the 97 Liverpool fans who died in the disaster. liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool…

NEW: the UK has had the lowest investment in the G7 in 24 out of the last 30 years. Public investment - eg core infrastructure - can boost productivity across the economy, but it's set to fall steeply over the next five years. To boost economic growth it needs to rise, not fall.

Thank you to Labour Growth Group Group for hosting a discussion on #SafeSickPay today. Great contributions from Yuan Yang, Ashwin Kumar IPPR, Carl Quillam CIPD and Amanda Walters on the economic benefits of increasing the rate of Statutory Sick Pay

The World Bank's data portal for poverty, inequality, and growth data has gotten much better! Their replacement for the older PovcalNet is called PIP — the 'Poverty and Inequality Platform'. If you are interested in poverty it is worth having a good look around. They just

Interested in incomes, poverty, social security and tax? Policy Evaluation & Research Unit at Manchester Metropolitan Uni is recruiting a Research Associate to maintain and develop a tax-benefit microsimulation model used by several major think-tanks: manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy/r…

Really great that Rachel Reeves has resolved to target net financial liabilities in her fiscal rules, as recommeded by us. It was our 2nd best option, after net worth. This is an amazing innovation, making our fiscal framework more honest, but also more growth friendly.

Important point from Carsten Jung: estimates of growth effects of public investment from Office for Budget Responsibility don't include second-order effects such as increased business confidence or labour supply that general equilibrium modelling might show and so are likely to be on the low side

Reporting about gilt market vibes suggests that there has been an inflation/interest rate surprise in yesterday's budget. Likely driven by the OBR's slightly surprising projections. But there really shouldn't have been much news on this, as Chris Giles sensibly explains.

‘Its easier to dismiss them as spineless snowflakes than actually take seriously the fact that people are really suffering’. Ben Kentish speaks to Professor Ashwin Kumar about the pandemic’s impact on young people, as the number of benefit claims due to sickness rises.

Estimated bill on that will be around £100 million, which would build around 15 new primary schools.

1/ Partnering with Changing Realities /w support from Child Poverty Action Group, our new report considers priorities for change for the upcoming child poverty strategy, informed by parents with experience on low incomes. ippr.org/articles/getti…