Most children in poverty in the UK are in working households, a phenomenon that has emerged since the early 2000s. Rising parental employment in recent decades has not translated into improved ...

A quarter of the way into this century, change is in the air. People want out of the status quo. But into what? The progressive engine of ideas seems to have run out of steam: we seem nervous of ...

Liberal democratic capitalism has failed to give many people good lives, and the future looks less promising than the past. Our economy is failing to deliver better jobs, higher wages and access to ...

This year, IPPR’s Progressive Review turns 30. Since its creation the journal has provided a space for progressives to debate ideas and policies which can change politics and society for the better.

It doesn’t feel like anybody’s helping you, or leading you,” one young person told us in a workshop earlier this summer. They ...

Government austerity policies since 2010 are disproportionately affecting women. Low earning black women stand to lose £5000 a year by 2022 as a result of cuts and changes to benefits and tax credits, ...

Growing levels of electoral inequality by age and class, falling political participation rates and low levels of belief in the efficacy of democracy all reflect an ingrained sense that the political ...

The growing capability of machines has raised the spectre of mass technologically induced unemployment and profound economic disruption. Yet despite the accelerating ability of robots and artificial ...

Following the success of our Commission on Health and Prosperity, IPPR is excited to launch the Centre for Health and Prosperity. The centre will be a new, permanent home for bold, progressive ...

Elections are the defining feature of modern democracy. They are the process by which we express a desired future en masse. It is the mass dimension that matters most; it is the mass dimension that is ...

The Bank of England increased its interest rates over recent years, aimed at reducing inflation. But this has also had an unintended effect on the Bank of England’s massive government bond buying – ...