Many key workers are among the UK’s lowest paid.
- Professor of Economic and Social Policy, University of Bath
A former member of the Social Mobility Commission on Jeremy Corbyn’s plan to drop social mobility as a policy goal in favour of social justice.
Britain is not a good country in which to be born poor.
The problems with benefits lie outside the system, while more and more of us are being dragged into its orbit.
Recessions always hit young people hard. Firms’ first response to declining orders is to stop hiring new recruits rather than sacking experienced staff. Young people disproportionately rely on new hiring…
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