socio-economic inequalities Articles from IPPO

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   What Policy Interventions Are Needed to Reduce Economic Inactivity for People with Poor Health and Older People?

   November 5, 2024

   • Amy Ramsay

   • socio-economic inequalities

   Amy Ramsay Economic inactivity among working-age adults has remained stubbornly high since the Covid pandemic, resulting in lost taxes, reduced consumer spending, and increased benefit payments. The UK is now the only G7 country whose employment rate is not back to pre-pandemic levels. Against the backdrop of a UK labour shortage and a reported £22bn fiscal black hole, there is an urgent need to address economic inactivity. The most likely groups not to be in work or looking for a job are those with long-term health conditions and older people. However, these...

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   How Can Evidence Help to Defend Public Services From the Growing Council Budget Crisis?

   February 6, 2024

   • Sarah Chaytor

   • socio-economic inequalities

   More than 10 years’ of cumulative reductions in funding to councils, exacerbated by long-term impacts from the Covid-19 pandemic and coupled with rising demand for services, have brought budgets to a tipping point. But what can be done?

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   How to Hold a Difficult Conversation With a Whole Society 

   October 6, 2023

   • Geoff Mulgan

   • socio-economic inequalities

   Every democracy at times has to make difficult decisions – making sacrifices or accepting restraints in the longer-term interest of the community. Sometimes these choices are thrown up by emergencies like wars and pandemics. Sometimes they are thrown up by slower moving crises, like reforming pensions or committing to multi-decade strategies on net zero.

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   International Policy Scan of Post-Pandemic Interventions that Support Hybrid Working and People with Disabilities

   September 15, 2023

   • Naomi Simon-Kumar

   • report

   • socio-economic inequalities

   • Tatjana Buklijas

   The COVID-19 pandemic triggered major shifts in labour markets globally. There has been an increasing focus globally on expanding and diversifying workforces, as well as facilitating the participation of underutilised groups in the labour market, and people with disabilities (PWD) are one of the key groups of interest.

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