The main parties’ manifestos have abandoned intergenerational fairness in bid to win the grey vote, says IF Co-Founder Angus Hanton
Tag: benefits
For welfare, carrots are better than sticks
“No shit, Sherlock!”: making welfare benefits conditional on satisfying increasingly stringent stipulations is largely ineffective in getting people back into work, concludes a new report. Liz Emerson, IF co-founder, investigates
Products of their times? Intergenerational divides in social attitudes
IF’s Rakib Ehsan summarises the important intergenerational findings of the latest British Social Attitudes Survey (BSA 35). As well as there being clear intergenerational divides in regard to party support and support for EU membership, there is evidence of an “attitudes chasm” between the oldest and youngest cohorts of Britain’s voting-age population over welfare provision… Read more »
Thinking in systems: how political change often works against the younger generation
If governments want to deprive people of benefits painlessly, they’ll do it slowly. But over time, this has disproportionately disadvantaged younger generations, says Angus Hanton, co-founder of IF
Recent research paints a grim picture of child poverty in the UK
David Kingman looks at several recent pieces of research which suggest that the UK is sliding backwards on children’s and young people’s living standards
New evidence highlights serious long-term effects of Britain’s child poverty crisis
Child poverty is a rapidly growing problem in the UK, and some new evidence has shown how damaging it is for children’s long-term outcomes. David Kingman explains
Will Brexit make it harder for British retirees to emigrate?
Senior figures within the UK’s retirement industry are suggesting that older people are rushing to move to France and Spain before Brexit happens. David Kingman reports
BSA: state pension no longer public’s main priority for extra government spending
In the first of two blogs about intergenerational stories arising from newly-released British Social Attitudes Survey data, David Kingman looks at attitudes towards the state pension and welfare spending
New research: young people in social housing face huge impact from benefit cuts
David Kingman looks at new research into the controversial benefit reform that the government is pursuing