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Pathways to Work DWP consultation – Intergenerational Foundation response
You can read the Intergenerational Foundation response to the DWP consultation on Pathways to Work here: https://www.if.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Pathways_to_work_Green_Paper_Consultation_IF_Response_FINAL.pdf
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Intergenerational Justice Prize 2025/26 The Intergenerational Foundation is delighted to support the Intergenerational Justice Prize in partnership with Germany’s Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations. There are two essay competitions: 1. The Personal Carbon footprint In 2024, global temperatures were 1.55 degrees warmer than the average temperature between 1850-1900, representing a crucial tipping point… Read more »
Towards intergenerational fairness in local government: An intergenerational impact assessment for local councils
How can we make decisions that better protect the long term? IF’s latest report outlines how intergenerational impact assessments can be introduced into local government. Charlie Hicks, former elected Champion for Future Generations and councillor for Oxfordshire County Council, provides the foreword to the report. IF presents a temporal intergenerational impact assessment tool that combines democratic… Read more »
A growing divide: Two decades of intergenerational unfairness
IF’s latest report provides a comprehensive assessment of how conditions for young people in the UK have evolved over the past two decades. It brings together data and analysis across eight core policy areas: the labour market; housing; higher education; public services; wealth and expenditure; health; politics; and environmental sustainability. Out of the eight policy… Read more »
Blowing the budget: Why the young have to spend more than the old on essentials
This report investigates spending power across the generations and finds that under-30s’ households: Have to dedicate the higher proportion of their total weekly expenditure to essentials Essential items take up 70% of their budget – a 16% increase compared to 2002/3 The bottom quintile of under-30s have on average have to dedicate 77% of their… Read more »
National Minimum and National Living Wage consultation 2024 – Intergenerational Foundation response
IF response to the Low Pay Commission 2024 consultation on the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage https://www.if.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/LPC_Consultation_2024-_IF_Response_Final.pdf
Locked out: Intergenerational unfairness in the housing market
This June 2024 report analyses local authority areas (LAs) by age and finds that the housing crisis is greatest in those areas where more young people live. The report calls on political candidates in the General Election to pledge to deliver new housing for their younger constituents. Policy recommendations include: Fund and roll out Housing… Read more »
IF intergenerational fairness manifesto audit – 2024 General Election
Here is IF’s quick glance General Election audit – assessing political party offers on intergenerational fairness grounds. We will be writing why we think they are winning or losing across policy areas over the next week:
IF General Election Manifesto 2024
With a General Election around the corner, IF has drilled down into the key policy asks required to improve intergenerational fairness on behalf of younger and future generation: Housing Taxation Environmental Student finance Children and young people’s spending And how to ensure that younger and future generations’ interests are included in policy with intergenerational impact… Read more »