Today’s reports from the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission should explode the idea that we will have made any substantial progress on reducing child poverty by 2020. In the face of this, SMF Director Emran Mian argues that we may need to start talking about alternative measures for what success looks like by 2020 and then derive a policy programme from those.
SMF Director Emran Mian looks at the Queen's Speech and argues that one of the dividing lines in politics - between collectivism and individualism - is vanishing.
SMF Director Emran Mian looks at figures from the British Retail Consortium's Payments Survey that appear to show cash is slowly falling out of favour with Britain's shoppers as the preferred way to pay.