Commentary & Podcasts
Podcast
SMF Podcast: Ask the Expert
Episode 7 | Ask The Expert: How do we better support the UK’s older carers? There are almost 1.3 million carers in England and Wales who are aged 65 and...
| Published: | 09 May 2019 |
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| Author: | Barbara Lambert |
Commentary
A bitter pill to swallow? Time for reform
The recent House of Lords report on intergenerational fairness has proposed a range of policies aimed at providing fairer taxation and distribution of benefits across age groups in the UK.
| Published: | 25 April 2019 |
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| Author: | Scott Corfe |
Commentary
University retention in London
Access to university is an important political issue, but this is only the beginning of the story.
| Published: | 25 April 2019 |
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Commentary
Why are low income consumers paying for the cost of crime?
Low income households pay a poverty premium for everyday essentials, including food, credit, energy and insurance, as the SMF has detailed in previous reports.[i] In this blog we are focusing...
| Published: | 01 April 2019 |
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Commentary
Ask the Expert: The ethnicity pay gap
In our latest ESRC-sponsored Ask the Expert seminar, Dr Simonetta Longhi, Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Reading and Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA), presented a brief overview of ethnicity pay gaps in the UK and discussed a number of possible explanations for the observed differences.
| Published: | 01 April 2019 |
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Commentary
A matter of principals: strengthening leadership in further education colleges
Find yourself a top headteacher and you’ve found yourself an excellent school. This has been the shorthand for a large part of education policy over the last two decades. This...
| Published: | 01 April 2019 |
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