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Migration Advisory Committee report raises serious questions about government's ability to deliver election promises to cut immigration
ppr says that today's report by the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) demonstrates the scale of the task which the government has set itself by committing to reduce net immigration to the UK to 'tens of thousands' from the current level…
Unemployment figures: manufacturing jobs need boost for export-led recovery
nemployment figures out today are likely to show a continuing decline in manufacturing jobs, as hopes of an export-led recovery recede, according to ippr.Social care vision must clarify public confusion
Responding to the publication of the government's vision for social care
Make work pay' plan undermined by rising childcare and transport costs
eacting to the publication of the Welfare Reform White Paper today, ippr is warning that the rising costs of childcare and transport are going to undermine the Government's plans to 'make work pay'.Half of cuts to benefits will hit people in work
head of the welfare reform white paper next week, new analysis by ippr highlights that benefit cuts announced in the Budget and Spending Review will hurt the living standards of low-paid working families.
Regional growth fund must target the most vulnerable areas
ppr north's Ed Cox reacts to the Coalition's regional growth white paper.North needs its own strategy for growth as report shows it will be hit hardest by spending cuts
new report by ippr north finds that spending cuts will have a disproportionate impact on the North and will deepen the North-South divide.Job losses and weakened Northern economy will deepen North-South divide
ppr north's reaction to the October 2010 Spending Review.
ippr Director Nick Pearce responds to the Chancellor's Spending Review
esponding to the Chancellor's Spending Review, ippr Director Nick Pearce said: 'By cutting so far and so fast the Chancellor is putting the economic recovery at risk.'Local investment, access to jobs and Big Society are key to improving deprived neighbourhoods in the North
A major new studyTaxing Child Benefit is better way of making savings and reforming system
eorge Osborne's proposal to axe Child Benefit for every family where one parent earns above £44,000 a year is a crude cut and creates a 'cliff edge' that will hurt middle class families too much. Instead a better idea is to tax Child…Doubling in long-term unemployment could jeopardise Coalition's flagship Work Programme
ew analysis from ippr shows that long-term unemployment has doubled in the last two years to 797,000, while the number of vacancies has fallen to 467,000. This 'jobs deficit' of 330,000 threatens the ability of the Government's flagship…