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Wednesday, 03 March 2010
As increasing numbers of single mothers become grandmothers, welfare dependency is becoming inter-generational. An increasing proportion of these families lack a working adult, relying instead...
Monday, 01 March 2010
Economists know far less about how the economy works than they might like to think, writes leading economist Paul Ormerod in Be Bold for Growth,...
Spending Watch
The Chancellor has pledged to halve the budget deficit by 2014. But serious doubts remain about the specific cuts that will be required to achieve this, not least because the government is continuing to announce new spending commitments.
As part of our programme of work focusing on the need to restore credibility to the UK public finances we are monitoring and recording the Government's announcements of new public spending initiatives.
latest blogs
by Yorick Wilks
Suppose it is the case that the UK's financial position is far, far, worse than is currently being discussed in the newspapers, what should be...
by Thomas Cowen
Having read Harriet Sergeant's opinion piece in The Sunday Times last weekend it made me ponder about my own experiences in the job market.
It seems...