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Closer to work: How to tackle Britain’s NEETs challenge

The economic fallout from war in the Middle East Part II: The outlook for the economy and public finances

The economic fallout from war in the Middle East Part I: Tackling the cost of living crunch

The Great British Baby Bust: Should we worry about the UK’s falling birth rate, and can we do anything about it?

Stopping dreams coming true: Is financial regulation holding back Britons’ aspirations of home ownership?

The populist party crashers: Book launch event for Why Populists Are Winning and How to Beat Them by Liam Byrne MP

Social immobility scars: The persistence of earnings gaps facing graduates from lower-income families

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Understatement of the year?

Taking the temperature: Spring Forecast 2026 and the prospects for borrowing, growth and living standards

Where is the UK economy heading?

Who are 'Unsung Britain'?

Growing pains

Net zero farming: How can we kick-start the net zero transition in farming without making the cost of living crisis worse?

Fixing the 13-year itch: How to make Universal Credit work for the millions of families who claim it

What can Westminster learn from Scotland on reforming disability benefits?

Taking better care of our workers: How can a Fair Pay Agreement improve conditions for social care staff?

Can UK governments ever get immigration policy right? Book launch event for 'Why Immigration Policy Is Hard' by Professor Alan Manning

Second album syndrome? What Autumn Budget 2025 means for the public, financial markets and the cost of living

Finding the right keys for growth: How should housing feature in the Budget?

When the levies break?

Back for more? The Chancellor’s tax and spend options in her upcoming Budget

Seeking a NEET solution: Why are so many young people not learning or earning?

Explaining the consumption gap: Keynote speech by External MPC member Dr. Catherine L. Mann

Snakes and ladders: The shifting sands of wealth in Britain

Saviour or stagnator?: Technology, AI and economic growth

Call of duties: What should the Chancellor’s tax strategy be for the Budget?

Stronger shock absorbers: How to build the financial resilience of low-to-middle income households

Hot topics, hard choices: Addressing the policy landscape for 2025-26

Call of duties: What should the Chancellor’s tax strategy be for the Budget?

Saviour or stagnator? Technology, AI and economic growth

Making Britain work for everyone: How can employers go further to recruit and retain disabled workers?

From healthcare to carers’ care How disabilities and caring responsibilities impact the lives of lower-income Britain

A new world order: The economic implications of global trade, tariffs, and uncertainty

New deal or no deal? How will the Employment Rights Bill impact workers, businesses and the wider economy?

The price is tight: How are the cost of essentials affecting low-to-middle-income families across Britain?

The pay postcode lottery: What is driving Britain’s place-based wage divides?

Third time lucky: Has the Spending review delivered for middle Britain?

Stormy clouds or brighter horizons? The UK’s uncertain outlook for living standards

Little Britain? What might happen if globalisation goes into reverse

Britain’s new safety net: Where are the Government’s welfare reforms heading?

How to spend £100 billion wisely

The challenges for Britain’s migrant workforce: Understanding precarious work among foreign-born workers, and implications for wider labour market policy.

Turning up the heat How to quicken Britain’s heat pumps roll-out and hit our net zero targets

Making public services better for low-to-middle income families

A league of their own: What can the UK learn from the US’ post-pandemic productivity acceleration?

The metrics that really matter How can we better measure economic and societal change?

Minimum wage, maximum pressure - Assessing short-term impacts and long-term plans for the UK’s wage floor

Spring cleaning the public finances: Assessing the Chancellor’s Spring Statement and the UK economic outlook

The headroom bind: What does the Chancellor need to do to hit her fiscal rules?

Delivering the undeliverable: Reforming incapacity and disability benefits to make the system work

Unpredictable earnings: The volatility of pay packets and its impact on living standards

Tackling the scourge of modern Britain: The policies and investment needed to reduce child poverty

No place like home? The cost and conditions of housing for ethnic minority households

The jittersbug: How worrying data and market unrest could affect Britain’s economic outlook

Are universities worth it? The returns from higher education for graduates and the economy

A squeezed middle of the decade? The political economy outlook for 2025

Work is where the heart is? How lower-income families experience the labour market

A new long-term plan for growth

Trade in the age of Trumponomics: Navigating Britain’s trade in a post-Brexit, intra-Trump world

An Uneven Inheritance: Examining wealth inequalities within and between generations

Many helping hands: How intergenerational transfers support lifetime living standards

Unsung Britain: Understanding the stresses and strains of low-to-middle income families

No pain, no gain? Assessing what the Budget means for the UK economy

Getting the green light:How can we fairly share the costs of decarbonising transport?

Tough medicine: Assessing the Chancellor’s options in her first Budget

Living standards in later life: Are auto-enrolled workers saving enough for their retirement?

Rebooting Brexit: Opportunities and challenges from resetting UK-EU trade relations

Structurally Unsound: Social inequalities in the mid-2020s

A build-up economic strategy: How much growth could the Government’s reforms deliver?

Building Blocks: Can the Government hit its housing targets?

Taxed into a corner

Making the ‘New Deal’ a good deal for low-paid workers

A brighter shade of grey? The current outlook for living standards

Net zeroing in on investment: Can the Government deliver a fair transition?

The times are a-changin’: Assessing the political and economic outlook for the new Labour Government

Is Britain working? The labour market context to the general election

The cost of poor health: What does rising health-related benefit spending mean for the UK and its next government?

The state of welfare: How has Britain’s safety net changed since 2010 and what comes next?

Ending stagnation: How to boost prosperity across Scotland

State crafting: Changes and challenges for managing the public finances

Inflation scarring: How has the cost-of-living crisis changed Britain?

Setting a new path to greater, shared prosperity: How cities in the North East can help to end economic stagnation

Building a better Britain: How cities like Bradford can help to end economic stagnation

Policy making beyond Westminster: Keynote speech by Mark Drakeford MS

Policy making beyond Westminster - Panel 2: Spending and strategy

Policy making beyond Westminster - Panel 1: Devolved tax and benefits

Policy making beyond Westminster: Keynote speech by John Swinney MSP

Precarious profits? Why firms use insecure contracts, and what would change their minds

Powering Britain: Can we decarbonise electricity without disadvantaging poorer families?

In credit? Assessing where Universal Credit’s long rollout has left the benefit system, and Britain

Building pressure? Rising rents, and what to expect in the future

Setting a high bar: Celebrating 25 years of the minimum wage, and plotting its next path

Boosting prosperity across Britain: How cities like Bristol can help to end economic stagnation

Living life to the full: How can we make our longer lives healthier, happier and more productive?

Game changer? Assessing the Budget’s economic, and electoral, impact

Ending stagnation: The role of cities like Nottingham in boosting economic prosperity across Britain

Healthy starts: How mental ill-health shapes the education and economic prospects of young people

Tax cuts today, spending cuts tomorrow? How the Budget might shape the General Election and beyond

Trading standards: How exposure to global trade shapes our living standards

Saving for today. And tomorrow. How to boost households financial resilience now, and living standards in retirement

New age or age-old appeal: How different generations view the parties and issues that will determine the General Election

Turning a corner? The political and economic outlook for a critical election year