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Would a wealth tax help alleviate financial pressures in Scotland? “There are no compelling reasons to believe a wealth tax cannot be reconciled with a strong and growing economy," Stephen Boyd tells David Bol and Alexander Brown. For The Scotsman scotsman.com/news/politics/…

🇺🇸 Is Britain ready for Trump v2? No, says Parth Patel. For the first time since 1945, the UK and the USA might not stand for the same things. #ICYMI: IPPR's Dr Parth Patel on BBC #PoliticsLive 👇

Today IPPR Scotland publishes new analysis showing that by 2030 child poverty in Scotland will be: - well below the rest of the UK due to devolved policies - more than twice as high as the Scottish Government's current target ippr.org/articles/achie…

Important reading from IPPR Scotland ahead of Scotland’s child poverty statistics being published later this week 👇🏻

Wrote a short piece for today's The Daily Record looking back at a week dominated by the Spring Statement and publication of the latest child poverty statistics dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/…

📺Great to have our child poverty analysis feature on Peston! Anushka Asthana Robert Peston 📺 👀John Swinney asked why the Scottish government is miles away from hitting its own child poverty target. We are clear child poverty is not inevitable. #ChildPoverty #Scotland

Tom Hunter believes Singapore provides a useful template for Scotland's economy. Is he right? Um, no... ippr.org/articles/singa…

⚠️It is time to focus on adopting “climate missions”: coherent plans to coordinate change that everyone eventually will be a part of. Our full statement on the Climate Change Committee's advice published today⤵️ Dave Hawkey

⚠️The CCC today published expert advice on how Scottish Government can tackle the climate crisis. 📺 David Hawkey spoke to Laura Piper of STV News to elucidate further: "What we really need now is a policy package that can step up to deliver [the simple things recommended by the CCC]."

The Scottish Government projects that mitigating the two-child limit in Scotland would lift 15,000 children out of child poverty. However that leaves 225,000 children still in poverty. GOV.UK must abolish the two-child limit as a starting point, but a far bolder action plan is needed.