Articles

Mixing it

By Max Nathan
Prospect - 10 October 2008
We may be underestimating the economic benefits of migration and diversity, especially at a local level

The injustice of in-work poverty

By Kayte Lawton, Social Policy
Welfare State - 02 October 2008
The belief that work - for those who can - is the best route out of poverty has been central to Britain’s welfare state since Beveridge first set out his vision for an end to want, ignorance, disease, squalor and idleness.

Manchester United?

By Ruth Sheldon, ippr
OpenDemocracy - 25 September 2008

Manchester City Council and the Labour Party have been at pains to emphasise what they believe to be a mutual benefit of the conference coming to the city. But a poll in the Manchester Evening News suggests that Mancunians don't share the same view. Just over 75 per cent of respondents said they believed the conference would not benefit Manchester. This in itself demonstrates that there is a disconnect between politicians and the public.

A way out for Brown?

By Michael Kenny, Head of Social Policy, ippr
New Statesman - 10 September 2008
Is Gordon Brown finished? Well not necessarily so, according to ippr's Michael Kenny. And the answer might be found in the PM's own political identity