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Prior to working with Keir, Alan was director of the Future Work programme at the RSA between 2019 and 2022; and director of research at the think tank Demos, between 2017 and 2019. He was also the senior advisor to Tristram Hunt MP, the shadow education secretary 2013-2015 and wrote the Labour party's manifesto in education for the 2015 general election. He has two small childr...

Responding to the latest MPC decision, William Ellis, senior economist at IPPR, said:"The Bank of England rightly stopped sales of long-dated gilts today. This is welcome and overdue. But unlike the US and Europe, the Bank hasn’t completely stopped active sales, and the way the Bank of England operates in the gilt market still costs taxpayers billions each year. The government n...

Responding to the EU state of the union address by Ursula Von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, Laura Chappell, associate director for international policy at IPPR, said:  “Mark Carney’s presence in Brussels is a sign of how quickly the world is changing. Countries outside the EU are finding new ways to work more closely with Europe, strengthen their security and ...

Young people are more than three times as likely to be unemployed as the wider workforce and around two-thirds of the recent increase in NEET numbers has been among those who are no longer looking for work. Many young people face multiple, complex and interacting barriers to entering employment.The consequences extend well beyond the labour market. For most young people, work is...

Young people in Rotherham have just 46 vacancies for every 1,000 young adults, compared with 288 in the CotswoldsNine of the 10 best areas for youth job opportunities are in the South of EnglandIPPR calls for a single-rate youth allowance for Universal Credit claimants, removing perverse incentives that can discourage moves into workA stark new Local Youth Opportunity Index from...