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ippr contributes to major EHRC review
In a report commissioned by the Equality and Human Rights Commission as part of its first triennial review, ippr analysed available data to assess equality in access to financial services – such as banks accounts, pensions and credit – and essential utilities on the basis of factors such as gender, age and ethnicity.
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Listen to ippr's conference highlights
Throughout the political party conference season, ippr's fringe events brought together a wide range of informed and influential speakers from across the political spectrum to debate issues from green economics to localism to coalition politics to the future of progressivism. Catch some of the best bits with our conference podcasts.
![New report points to investment, jobs, Big Society as keys](/web/20101013220332im_/http://www.ippr.org/uploadedImages/_Feed_Test/feed-rebalancinglocaleconomies-101008.jpg)
Investment, jobs, Big Society are keys for the North
'Rebalancing Local Economies', a new report by ippr North with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and The Northern Way, looks at the key factors in improving the most deprived neighbourhoods across the North, including case studies in Liverpool, Leeds and the Tees Valley.
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ippr advocates Child Benefit tax to replace 'undermining' cuts
George 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, taxing Child Benefit could provide the same savings in a more graduated, progressive way.
![ippr event is highlight of Conservative fringe](/web/20101013220332im_/http://www.ippr.org/uploadedImages/_Feed_Test/feed-conservativeconf-101006.jpg)
ippr event is highlight of Conservative fringe
Delegates packed an ippr fringe event in Birmingham to hear leading Tory Nick Boles and former Lib Dem leader Ming Campbell agree the Coalition would stick together. But they disagreed on the idea of an electoral pact.
![Where next?](/web/20101013220332im_/http://www.ippr.org/uploadedImages/_Feed_Test/feed-wherenext-100924.jpg)
Essay looks at challenges for centre-left
ippr presents a stimulating essay by Tony Wright, Professor of Government and Public Policy at UCL and former MP, which reviews the challenges facing British centre-left politics in the post-Coalition world and concludes ippr's 'Where next for progressive politics?' seminar series.
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ippr brings new ideas to Labour's 'new generation' conference
ippr's programme at the Labour conference in Manchester tackled the big economic and political challenges facing the centre-left, with big-name speakers including James Purnell, Liam Byrne and Richard Lambert, Director General of the CBI.
![New programme](/web/20101013220332im_/http://www.ippr.org/uploadedImages/_Feed_Test/NEE_485x283.jpg)
ippr launches new research programme
The financial crash provided a powerful wake-up call: all is not well in our economy. ippr's New Era Economics programme will undertake a radical rethink of the UK economy, drawing together the latest economic and progressive thinking to provide a vision of a new economic era.
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ippr helps bring LibDem conference to life
Featuring Simon Hughes MP, Jeremy Browne MP and ippr Director Nick Pearce, ippr's Liberal Democrat conference fringe event drew out some fascinating perspectives on the formation of the Coalition, with the Deputy Leader saying the LibDems had gained an 'extraordinary' amount in negotiations.
Supporting the Coalition to end child immigration detention
ippr briefing outlines alternatives
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We believe the government deserves credit for confirming that they will end this inhumane and ineffective policy. But ending child detention clearly raises significant challenges which are proving difficult to overcome.
Welfare-to-work is road block in Cameron's devolution drive
ippr backs localised job services
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A new report by ippr shows that despite promising to devolve power, the Coalition government’s flagship welfare-to-work programme does nothing to change one of the most highly centralised welfare systems in the world.
Society not State: new issue of ippr's journal out now
Original analysis and research
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The second part of this issue of PPR focuses on the Big Society, led by Maurice Glasman's challenge to the left to engage constructively with Cameron's big idea. Other articles look at social economics, care, justice, localisation and more.
Trade deficit narrows despite fall in exports: signs of a slowdown?
Update on economic activity
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Between July and August, the UK’s trade deficit shrank by £0.4 billion because, although exports fell, imports fell by more. However, underlying trends suggest that both exports and imports have been growing at a healthy pace.
Latest Reports:
Review of access to essential services
Rebalancing Local Economies
Opportunities in deprived communities >
Now It's Personal? The new landscape of welfare-to-work
Alternatives to Child Immigration Detention
What are the options for the Coalition government? >
Where next?
Tony Wright on the future of the centre-left >
The Effect of the Global Financial Crisis on Emerging and Developing Economies
Report shows more people in poverty >
In-work poverty in the recession
Data shows working poverty still rising >
Green Streets interim report
The potential of community energy projects >
Four Tests for Local Enterprise Partnerships
Assessing the UK's new economic vehicles >
Migration Statistics, August 2010