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The Government’s approach to reforming unemployment support is harming the UK’s future prosperity and will not equip the country for the global race, a leading economist warns today.

On Monday the Government launches Universal Credit, its flagship benefits scheme. What should we look out for?

On 15 April, Social Market Foundation Director Ian Mulheirn took part in a Political Quarterly debate on the social market framework in public policy.

Social Market Foundation Director, Ian Mulheirn, is to step down later this year to take up a senior role at the leading economic consultancy Oxford Economics.

A little-noticed announcement on public spending at last month’s Budget looks set to pit pensioners and working-age people against each other in the future over their share of the controversial welfare bill, new analysis from the Social Market Foundation reveals.

Creative accounting, inflating the housing market, a new squeeze on welfare

The Government’s aim to rebalance the economy away from financial services is inconceivable due to a 40,000 per year shortage of home-grown graduates in the science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) sectors, a think tank reveals today (Monday 18 March).

New analysis of today’s public borrowing figures reveals that the deficit is on course to be over £6bn higher by the end of this year compared to last, meaning that overall government borrowing looks set to rise and yet more spending cuts may be necessar

On 5 February 2013 Michael Gove delivered a speech entitled “The Progressive Betrayal” to the Social Market Foundation. A recording of the event, text from the speech and tweets from...