To mark this year’s “Time to Talk Day” IF researcher Melissa Bui (author of our “Costing Young Minds” paper) starts a conversation about how the negative attitudes towards children and young people during the COVID-19 crisis have had negative consequences – whether directly or indirectly – on their mental health
Category: Government spending
Vulnerable young losing out during COVID-19
Liz Emerson, IF Co-founder, looks at the latest research released by UK Youth on the decimation of youth organisation funding during the COVID-19 pandemic
What does the Chancellor’s Spending Review mean for younger and future generations?
On Wednesday (25 November) UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak presented his “Spending Review 2020” (SR2020) to Parliament, setting out the government’s spending plans for the coming year. IF student intern Hugh Nicholl interprets the SR2020 from the perspective of younger and future generations, and shows why tentative steps towards reform to RPI, likewise announced on Wednesday,… Read more »
COVID-19 and young people’s mental health
NHS Digital recently published one of the first comprehensive studies of the mental health of children and young people during the pandemic. Melissa Bui explains how the bleak picture painted by the findings belongs to the larger narrative surrounding spending on children and young people generally
Ever upwards: at what age will Millennials retire?
The UK’s State Pension Age has been rising steadily over recent years in response to increasing longevity, and last week it finally reached the new milestone of 66 for both men and women. What will happen to the State Pension Age next? David Kingman explores what this could mean for the future
Politics, COVID and Brain Drain in Bolsonaro’s Brazil
The COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating Brazil’s brain drain, and consequently affecting Brazil’s intergenerational development plan and its educational future, writes João Leal, recent MSc graduate of the London School of Economics and now Policy-Maker at the State Secretariat for Social Development in São Paulo. First, to help us understand the chaos that Brazil is facing… Read more »
COVID-19: Why we cannot justify bailing out airlines
The UK government is facing increasing pressure to spend billions of pounds to unconditionally bail out the aviation industry during the COVID-19 crisis. IF researcher Melissa Bui explains how refraining from offering such carbon-intensive industries a lifeline helps tackle both COVID-19 and climate change
Covid-19: this is the moment to scrap student debt
The Coronavirus crisis calls for some radical rethinking all round – but the young are especially exposed. Angus Hanton, Co-Founder of IF, proposes two solutions that would make a big difference to intergenerational justice: scrap student debt and slash income tax for the young
IF Manifesto Audit 6: Pensions and Welfare
The main parties’ manifestos have abandoned intergenerational fairness in bid to win the grey vote, says IF Co-Founder Angus Hanton
IF Manifesto Audit 2: Education
With less than a week to go until the 2019 General Election, Liz Emerson, IF Co-founder, gives a whistle-stop tour of what the different parties are offering on education – from pre-school childcare through to further and higher education finance