Last call for tomorrow's @mileendinstitute.bsky.social event on "Inequality and the Future of London", co-hosted with @politicalquarterly.bsky.social. Join @rupahuq.bsky.social @mikebrewerecon.bsky.social @sachahilhorst.bsky.social & Graeme Atherton. All welcome! www.eventbrite.com/e/inequality...

UK authors - I urge you to read this article about a school in Manchester who removed hundreds of our books from their library they deemed ‘inappropriate’ and share. This is appalling censorship - and it’s coming from the school’s head and SLT themselves. @indexoncensorship.org

Oooooof.

Yes! This!!

Prolonged highs in gas prices could push up the price cap by around £500 in July. The government should use the time between now and then to think smartly about how support can target vulnerable families with lower incomes and high energy needs. Read more 👉 buff.ly/bDPVzLB

This is going to be a banger.

A sickening society is clear in these statistics So why is it not in the news? Powerful wake-up call from @chakrabortty.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I adore this book and tend to thrust it on anyone (and it's not science fiction...it's fiction, or speculative fiction).

In her speech yesterday, the Chancellor said the question people will be asking themselves at the next election is "are me and my family better off?" So what is the answer likely to be? 🧵

This makes a very good point. Although a world where we only ever indexed welfare to prices would be one with ever increasing income inequality offset in part by ever improving public services.

On 26 March, the @mileendinstitute.bsky.social and @politicalquarterly.bsky.social will be holding a special event on "Inequality & the Future of London". Join @rupahuq.bsky.social @mikebrewerecon.bsky.social @sachahilhorst.bsky.social and Joe Fyans. All welcome! www.eventbrite.com/e/inequality...

How has today's forecast affected the outlook for welfare spending? There has been little change, and considering spending as a share of GDP it does not look out of control.

The family voting thing is weird. As a Presiding Officer, it's really difficult to deal with. The only time I've been shouted out by a voter was stepping in to try and prevent it happening. And parents don't take kindly to you saying they can't take their kids into the booth...

🧵 of snaps from doing this piece in Gorton & Denton www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/724... 1. Longsight is … confused! … 2 shops a few feet away with BOTH Green & Labour posters up

On Wednesday, Ofgem is expected to announce that the energy price cap for Q2 2026 will be nearly £120 lower than current levels. This policy will deliver a clear boost to living standards from April, and should help to keep bills below current levels until at least 2029.

My council tax is well spent!

Life at the PDF mill is a hard, we need something to look forward to Robert

Good to hear that Millburn is being comprehensive in his review when he spoke on today programme this morning. Clearly, though, with today's stats demand for young workers is part of the problem - not just supply of them.

How can living standards stagnate, while people are working more? @mikebrewerecon.bsky.social explains ⤵️

To round off this week's Unsung Britain conference & book launch, today's Top of the charts is a – you guessed it – Unsung Britain special. @mikebrewerecon.bsky.social highlights a few areas that provoked debate this week, or really stood out from the past 18 months of research 👇

Working harder, getting nowhere? @mikebrewerecon.bsky.social walks you through the experience of Unsung Britain, in our latest Substack ⤵️ buff.ly/ANatmtg

Our major new book is out today, exploring the changing circumstances of the poorer half of Britain, and setting out a policy agenda. Read a summary of it all here resolutionfoundation.substack.com/p/unsung-bri...

📢 Published today! 🚨 Unsung Britain represents an 18-month investigation into the lives of the 13 million working-age families across the poorest half of the country. Read more 👉 buff.ly/7WcqrbQ

Ooooh I've been promoted (I'm not CEO don't worry Ruth's still in charge last time I checked)

There's a t shirt, yes? Surely someone's made a t shirt??

A bit late, but here is my annual confirmation that I have donated royalties from my book on inequality - a low three-digit sum - to Shelter, Gingerbread and Trussell Trust. (I am amazed it's being bought, as it's all pre-pandemic, but happy that it is) www.amazon.co.uk/What-Know-Sh...

My first Lionel Robbins lecture on 'Why Immigration Policy is Hard'. 2 more to come: Monday 9th, 16th 6.30pm www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQkB...

🧵 NEW: Our report 'Listen and learn' sets out how the Government should improve Universal Credit (UC) for the 15 million people who rely on it. 13 years after its roll-out began, it’s time to get UC right. We've co-produced recommendations with @changingrealities.bsky.social participants 👇

INFLATION RISES AGAIN, GO THE PUSH ALERTS TO TENS OF MILLIONS OF PHONES *Possibly to an oddity with the specific pre-Christmas day when airfares were checked on Kayak by ONS staff, something I only know because I was reading Alphaville the other day. www.ft.com/content/fdad...

New report published assesses the UK’s growth challenge 18 months into the current Parliament, examining how economic performance has evolved since the pandemic and evaluating the Government’s progress against its central mission to raise growth. www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...

I really really want to see the bit of the Guardian's style guide that explains the difference between a magnate and a tycoon.

This is an important programme for us ...

The utterly shameless & widely covered "report" out today, claiming net zero will "cost" £9tn is based on: * Assuming free fossil-fuel energy, free petrol cars, free gas boilers, free gas power plants etc AND * Including climate damages in the "cost" of net zero I kid you not, it is that stupid

🚨Major conference🚨 We're publishing a new book – combining analysis and policy work with in-depth conversations to understand the needs of lower income families – and hosting a major conference to discuss, with keynote speeches from Andy Burnham and Ken Murphy. Register now➡️ buff.ly/2tG8LsY

The Resolution Foundation is on substack! Subscribe to make sure you don't miss further insights into our publications and the latest policy developments from staff at the Resolution Foundation. Our most recent post is from @mikebrewerecon.bsky.social ⤵️ buff.ly/gVKQE4o

This is a bad headline. But I guess, ‘add 0.1% to total employment costs’ is less exciting. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Start the year with compassion & empathy. And with a commitment to go further for lasting change on child poverty. Please read & share this powerful blog from Beauty, a mother and campaigner working with us on @changingrealities.bsky.social

I'm afraid there *is* an obvious answer: it can't.

Brilliant column by @sarahoconnor.ft.com on the Employment Rights Act:

V much enjoyed this. How Jane Austen revealed the economic basis of society economist.com/christmas-sp... from The Economist

It's midwinter's eve tonight. If you're quick about it, you can start your timed THE DARK IS RISING read-along before midnight. (tonight's portion is Chapter 1, 'Midwinter's Eve'. Tomorrow is 'Midwinter Day' and 'The Sign-Seeker'.)

Yesterday, over 60 of us fr @changingrealities.bsky.social came together in @10dowingstreet.bsky.social for a reception at which the PM & @darrenpjones.bsky.social thanked us for our efforts to push for action on child poverty. Together, we can make change happen. But this is just the beginning.

@nyecominetti.bsky.social piece from yesterday important context for today's labour market stats. ALL of the change in the employment rate since the pandemic is due to unemployment - a lack of jobs not a lack of jobseekers.

My parent’s local A&E doesn’t have pillows, time, beds, capacity. The GP doesn’t have emergency appointments for emergencies, services with capacity to refer people to. Caring like this about nomenclature and pronouns seems to me a luxury pursuit, frankly.

Updated child poverty forecasts reflecting latest forecast and child poverty strategy. Poverty set to fall through the Parliament - we estimate by a chunky 300k but by a less chunky 1%. That's because the number of kids in the population is also falling.

NEW ANALYSIS: Today the Government announced its new Child Poverty Strategy. But what might it mean for the outlook for child poverty in this Parliament, and how does it compare to progress on reducing child poverty in recent decades? New RF analysis answers these questions....

Potential for confusion today over child poverty numbers. Govt statements are not super clear on what is "this is what policies have done to child poverty compared with the counter-factual" and "this is how much lower child poverty will be by end of Parliament than it is now".

In non-Budget news, last week I appeared at the UK Covid Inquiry , talking about how well (or not) the economic interventions had been designed with inequality in mind. Here is a short write-up of my conclusions and recommendations. www.linkedin.com/pulse/econom...

Another one of those crazy Telegraph articles this weekend which, for some unknown reason, compares a healthy DINKY to a disabled single parent with three children.

And yet they've not managed to find the families of the half a million kids to be lifted out of poverty... 🤔