Claire Lamont reveals how the latest drop in unemployment figures masks a more worrying trend in youth unemployment
Antony Mason
New IF research exposes government’s dodgy accounting over tuition fees
David Kingman explains the findings from IF’s latest piece of research, which show how, while much of a burden government spending on universities is passing onto future generations through higher tuition fees, this policy fails in its proclaimed aim to reduce the deficit – and increases the national debt.
Future generations are being priced out of postgraduate study
Josh White describes the grim picture for postgraduates seeking funding to continue their studies, and how this is having a crippling effect on social mobility
New IF research examines the intergenerational democratic deficit
David Kingman looks at the findings from one of IF’s most recent pieces of research, which examined the impacts of Britain’s ageing population on our electoral system
Review of Regeneration
David Kingman reviews Regeneration, the latest book in the Radical Futures series, sponsored by IF
Young Councillors – missing presumed absent
With personal experience as a City Councillor in Norwich, Samir Jeraj explains why, sadly, young people are under-represented in local government
ONS reveals full UK pension liabilities
David Kingman was present as the ONS officially announced the UK’s full pension liabilities for the first time at the Royal Statistical Society on 27 April
Scotland’s proposed oil fund: more than just hot air?
David Kingman explores Alex Salmond’s recent proposal to create a sovereign wealth fund for future generations if Scotland becomes independent
Votes at 16: where’s the problem?
To mark the Votes at 16 Action Week, youth worker Melissa Jane Knight makes the case for lowering the voting age
There was an Old Lady Who Lived In a Large Shoe (just not with her family)
Liz Emerson shows the appeal of “intergenerational living” as a solution to the housing crisis