Liz Emerson, IF Co-Founder, analyses the manifestos using the lens of intergenerational fairness in the run-up to the May General Election. Today she inspects the LibDems
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Pioneering legislation for a Sustainable Wales
How to secure the ambitions of sustainability for the long term and for future generations in government and other institutions – that was the focus of a two-day conference in Cardiff this week. And, by a stroke of good fortune, it coincided with the official sealing by the Welsh Assembly of the “Well-being of Future… Read more »
New documentary shows scale of Housing Benefit payments to private landlords
David Kingman draws attention to a new documentary from the BBC which shows how much public money is now being paid to private landlords in the form of Housing Benefit – often in return for substandard housing
Electoral Commission: Nearly half a million young people register to vote in run-up to 2015 general election
David Kingman reports recent news from the Electoral Commission about the number of young people who have registered to vote ahead of the 2015 general election
Who should Young People Vote for this May? Labour?
Liz Emerson, IF Co-Founder, analyses the manifestos using the lens of intergenerational fairness in the run-up to the May General Election. Today she inspects Labour
Who should Young People Vote for this May? Conservatives?
Liz Emerson, IF Co-Founder, analyses the manifestos using the lens of intergenerational fairness in the run-up to the May General Election. Today she inspects the Conservatives
Higher education: would a graduate tax be fairer than income-contingent loans?
David Kingman weighs up a recent article from higher education think tank Million+ which argued that introducing a graduate tax would be the fairest solution to the issue of funding higher education
Conservatives promise to cut inheritance tax on family homes. Will this just make the housing crisis worse?
David Kingman reports on the recent policy announcement from the Conservative Party about inheritance tax
Budget 2015: How George’s Help-to-Buy ISAs widen inequality between the generations
As part of our Vox Pop series, recent graduate Tom Hannah expresses his dismay over one particular aspect of the recent Budget that will pump more noxious fumes into a climate of intergenerational unfairness
The public say they back higher taxes to fund the NHS – so where does this leave intergenerational fairness?
David Kingman looks at the results of an interesting piece of research which gauged public support for higher spending on the NHS, and ponders what they mean in intergenerational terms