I noticed this tweet this morning from the Wall Street Journal: More Americans are postponing retirement. 30% of middle-class workers plan to work until their
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I’m on the advisory board of CLASS and so am pleased to share the following even though I can’t be there: Class Parliamentary Launch – Why Inequality Matters 5.30pm,
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From the rippoedoffbritons blog (with permission):

As the Observer has reported today, based on work from the Resolution Foundation, for many parents the cost of childcare now makes work uneconomic. There are many dimensions to this:
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Sometimes the choices with regard to tax and spend are stark. As the FT has reported this week: Jerry Brown, California’s governor, has warned that
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Three weeks ago I asked some questions of Jersey on this blog. Since this blog is well read in Jersey – most especially by those
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We challenge the authorities of the British Channel Island of Jersey (a secrecy jurisdiction) to open, public debate about our criticisms of that island’s role
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The New Putney Debates are on the for the next fortnight. The full programme is here. You’ll find my contribution on 8 November. As the organisers say:
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As Sam Brittan writes in the FT this morning: Despite David Cameron’s incredibly silly optimistic response to a much predicted Olympics-based short-term variation in quarterly
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