David Kingman looks at one of the first attempts to analyse the possible impacts of the Conservatives’ latest reforms to higher education funding
Could intergenerational problems make social justice harder to achieve?
David Kingman looks at the findings from the latest report by the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission from an intergenerational angle
Do Millennials lack an essential understanding of the property market?
A recent survey conducted by NatWest looked at how Millennials feel about buying their first property, getting onto the property ladder and the idea of “Generation Rent”. The results make interesting reading
July Budget 2015: changes to student loans will hit middle-income graduates, says IFS
David Kingman looks at the changes to the system of student loans that were announced in the July 2015 Budget, and how – as the Institute for Fiscal Studies argues – these will have a negative impact on middle-income graduates
Unwinding the Housing Crisis: a Which? Landlord?
In the second in a series of related blogs, IF supporter Tim Lund envisages a consumers’ guide to landlords – difficult to assemble for the reasons cited, but a much-needed tool for all those (and especially the young) in the rental sector
A Democratic Revolution for Youth: The “Youth Tithe” as a Doctrine
On 31 August 2001 in Lima, Peru, Christian Pardo Reyes started a campaign – operating through events and publications – to introduce a quota system to reflect the need to involve youth at all levels of government power. His organisation became the Internacional Juvenil. To achieve its goals, it established strong relationships with other youth… Read more »
New report: over half of all young adults will be renting by 2025
David Kingman looks at the findings of a recent report by PwC which argues “Generation Rent” is set to carry on growing
Are the government’s latest pension reforms short-termist?
David Kingman asks whether recent changes to private pension-saving could benefit the government today at the expense of the longer term
The Forgotten Problem: Rising Student Rents
Second-year university student Claire Butler describes the real and growing crisis in university accommodation and calls for urgent and concerted action
Government delays the introduction of the “care cap” until 2020
As David Kingman reports, one of the government’s most significant reforms to the funding of old age social care appears to have been kicked into the long grass