Press releases

List of press Articles

  1. Small companies key to recovery

    redit-fuelled asset markets have encouraged greater speculation, displacing more traditional long-term investment strategies
  2. UK economy will get worse before it gets better

    Underlying growth last year just 0.3%
  3. Government needs to protect 'community pubs'

    New figures show Britain losing 16 pubs a week
  4. Employee reps needed to tackle top pay excess

    IPPR welcomes greater transparency through new distribution statements
  5. Discredited credit ratings agencies in NHS could pose conflict of interest

    Monitor to outsource financial oversight of public & private providers of NHS
  6. Urgent need for extension of 'Youth Contract' as youth unemployment tops 22%

    Govt need to help third of unemployed out of work for more than a year
  7. Claimant counts for North East, Yorkshire and Humber, London, Scotland and Northern Ireland all higher than at their recession peaks

    Govt should guarantee a job for everyone who has been unemployed for more than a year paid at the minimum wage, targeting the worst affected areas first
  8. Future of England in a devolved union can't be decided by expert commission

    79% of English voters want Scottish MPs barred from votes on English only laws
  9. Up to twenty job seekers chasing every vacancy in struggling pockets of the UK

    IPPR North calls for a job guarantee in worst affected areas
  10. New report is not a 'gotcha moment' proving that immigration causes unemployment, says IPPR

    igration Advisory Committee (MAC) report identifies 'association' between immigration and employment.
  11. Executive pay outstrips performance in FTSE 100 companies

    CEO average pay up 33 per cent, to £5m
  12. Thatcher's 'right to buy' needs 21st century boost

    million housing association tenants should be given the 'right to buy', according to a new paper for IPPR by leading backbenchers David Davis MP and Frank Field MP.