Recent graduate Jessica Jones draws attention to the costly and insecure terms of student debt, what it might mean to have this hanging over you for the rest of your working life, and how few students even know what they’ve entered into
Category: Intergenerational Justice
Raising number of older workers could boost GDP by £100 billion, according to PwC
David Kingman looks at a new report from the accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) which suggests Britain could reap a huge economic dividend if older people stayed in the workforce for longer
Are defence cuts an intergenerational issue?
David Kingman looks ahead to the upcoming Strategic Defence and Security Review from an intergenerational angle
The New Generation: Spanish Lessons for UK
In a recent poll in Spain, two new parties with leaders in their 30s attracted more support than the two established parties combined. Tim Lund says that there is a lesson here for British political leaders
Are student grants going to be axed by BIS?
David Kingman addresses the recent reports which suggest that maintenance grants for students may be cut as the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) looks to find substantial savings in its annual spending
Could a balanced budget law work in the UK?
David Kingman considers Chancellor George Osborne’s proposal to implement a balanced budget law during the current parliament
New report emphasises scale of intergenerational financial liabilities
David Kingman describes the findings of a new report which shows the scale of the liabilities being passed on to future generations
Bricking it – starting a family without a foundation
Contributing to our occasional “Vox Pop” series, Melissa Jane Knight talks housing and how the rhetoric of a government claiming to support “hard-working families” falls on deaf ears when young families are locked out of affordable home-ownership and forced into cramped, expensive rentals
Local Government Association warns of cuts to services aimed at NEETs
David Kingman reports on a recent warning from the Local Government Association that cuts to services for disadvantaged young people may have a disastrous impact on their futures
Think tank calls for radical reform of council tax
David Kingman explores the recent proposal from the think tank CentreForum to make the property tax system fairer by radically reforming Council Tax, instead of bringing in a new “Mansion Tax”