The pandemic has had dire consequences for people’s lives – not just in health terms, but economically. This tide of hardship will only swell without adequate support for the economy.
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Public services
Centre for Economic Justice
Coronavirus response
IPPR
The government should use the ten-point plan to deliver an investment-led economic recovery focused on job-creation, decarbonising the economy, restoring nature, and tackling inequality.
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Briefing
Economy
Environment
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Environmental Justice Commission
IPPR
The government has set out an intention to ‘build, build, build’ one million new homes by the end of the current parliament.
Speeding up home building will, according to the government, require...
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Housing & infrastructure
Jobs & skills
IPPR
Eight leading employers' associations joint statement in support of IPPR immigration reform policy proposals to increase flexibility and reward employers who invest in local skills
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Jobs & skills
Society & migration
IPPR
New research reveals the scale of the job losses under the Chancellor’s new Job Support Scheme and the Job Retention Bonus when the furlough scheme winds up at the end of the month.
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Economy
Jobs & skills
Centre for Economic Justice
Coronavirus response
Future Welfare State
IPPR
100,000 new opportunities needed in Scotland to head off threat of highest youth unemployment levels since records began
As Scotland’s schools begin to return following the Covid-19 lockdown...
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Jobs & skills
IPPR Scotland
Coronavirus response
We are entering a period of high unemployment with stifled job creation. The government's response to the unemployment crisis so far relies on a quicker bounce back in economic activity than either the Office for Budget Responsibility or the Bank of England are predicting.
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Jobs & skills
Coronavirus response
Future Welfare State
IPPR
Injuries are the leading cause of preventable death in children and young people. As such, they present a significant cost to individuals, society, and the economy. Although the UK has been a world leader in injury prevention policy, austerity and a lack of strategy have hampered further improvement.
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Jobs & skills
Business
Centre for Economic Justice
IPPR
We are facing the worst jobs crisis in a generation – with young people (18–24) set to be hit particularly hard. Covid-19 is first and foremost a health crisis, but it has increasingly morphed into...
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Jobs & skills
Young people
IPPR
As the Covid-19 pandemic and economic crisis deepens, initial indicators and projections paint a grim picture for the economic prospects of young people across the UK. With the sectors most affected...
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Jobs & skills
IPPR Scotland