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Blog: Give workers a stake
The UK has one of the highest levels of regional inequality in Europe, so it is crucial for us to focus on the challenge of making sure any benefits growth are spread across the whole country. Coming up with just one key idea for this new social contract is a challenge. But the one I would [...]
Read moreBlog: The rich need to pay their fair share
by Michael Jacobs, Director of the IPPR Commission on Economic Justice
In proposing one key idea for the new social contract, I will rather sneakily take six of the 73 policy recommendations in the final report of the IPPR Commission on Economic Justice, under one general heading. The core argument of the Commission is that the way the UK economy – and many other [...]
Read moreBlog: Putting trade unions at the heart of the new social contract
150 years ago, the trade union movement gathered for its first ever Congress at the Mechanics Institute in Manchester. A century and a half later, our solution for social justice remains fundamentally unchanged: collective bargaining. Time and time again, our movement has proved that [...]
Read moreBlog: The Time is Now for Inclusive Growth
With echoes of Brexit ringing in Parliament’s corridors, an oasis of calm was to be found in Portcullis House, at the APPG on Inclusive Growth’s conference on the Future of Work and Inequality. But calmness should not be confused with complacency – the urgent need for inclusive growth to [...]
Read moreBlog: Time to include the excluded in economic growth
by Bev Hurley
Many UK cities and regions lag behind their EU competitors in GVA and productivity, and there are growing inequalities within and between regions in poverty, health and life chances. The majority of households living in poverty are in work, but in low paid/low status jobs, and two thirds of UK [...]
Read moreBlog: Human capital critical to boost inclusive growth
At its Annual Meetings in October, the World Bank Group launched a Human Capital Index, which measures the productivity of the next generation based on key outcomes such as child survival, stunting, learning-adjusted years of schooling, and the adult survival rate. What’s the purpose of the new [...]
Read moreBlog: Why do we need a Global Coalition for Youth Employment?
It was an honour for me to speak at the launch of The Future of Work for the People we Serve. All my working life, I’ve served young people – the ones at the sharp end of the unemployment crisis: the ones who study hard, pass their exams – and then find themselves on a […]
Read moreBlog: How would a Global Campaign for Youth Employment Work?
by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth
This essay is included in the new book from the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank and IMF: The Future of Work for the People we Serve. To sign up for the launch of the book as well as a conference on the future of work and inequality, click here! David Woollcombe, Yunus Carrim MP, […]
Read moreBlog: The Purpose of Finance – APPG roundtable discussion
by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth
The finance industry is one of the UK’s most successful industries. But it’s an industry most associated with boosting inequality than equality. And when things go wrong they go badly wrong for all of us. For years, we’ve focused on how the finance industry works, but not on why, or in other [...]
Read moreBlog: Our research shows that a Citizen’s Basic Income would reduce poverty and inequality
A recent news item from the All Party Parliamentary Group tells us that new research from the House of Commons library suggests that, if nothing changes, the top 1% of the world’s population could own two-thirds of the planet’s wealth by 2030 if inequality grows at the same rate as it [...]
Read moreBlog: House of Commons Library Research
by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth
Assuming that recent annual growth rates in the amount of wealth held by the top 1% and other 99% are maintained up to 2030. We can then estimate the share of total wealth held by the top 1% under such a scenario – though this is clearly simplistic. Nevertheless, following this [...]
Read moreBlog: Research suggests British people worried by growing political power of global super-rich
by Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth
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