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News in 2010

Brighter pupils raise the bar for classmates

16 December 2010

Brighter pupils raise the bar for classmates

Why education fails the poor

10 December 2010

Protesting students and income persistence

Paul Gregg invited to join Cabinet Office advisory group on social mobility

9 December 2010

Paul Gregg invited by Alan Milburn to join Cabinet Office advisory group on social mobility

Welfare shake-up attacked as ‘clunky’

6 December 2010

Paul Gregg, who advocated such a “universal credit” in 2007, said the coalition government’s plans for its leading policy to simplify the benefits system “look very clunky around the edges”.

CMPO Winter Bulletin - What the media say

5 December 2010

Research in Public Policy issue 11 - What the media say

Research in Public Policy - Winter Bulletin - issue 11

4 December 2010

Research in Public Policy - Winter Bulletin - issue 11

Perils of Pay Parity by Carol Propper for Public Finance

26 November 2010

Carol Propper writes about pay in the public sector

The effect of competition is to save lives without raising costs

16 November 2010

Lansley may argue that by putting power in the hands of GPs he is empowering their patients, but the people he is really empowering are GPs

Benefits reform cannot be a one-size-fits-all policy

10 November 2010

Gregg has long been concerned that universal credit is a big bang approach that is not needed. He argues that its worst effects could be mitigated by reducing the tax rate for low earners, favoured by the Liberal Democrats, or not withdrawing tax credits.

Low-skilled young swell jobless ranks

9 November 2010

A larger proportion of the low-skilled young are out of work than in either of the past two recessions, FT analysis of official labour market figures shows, highlighting the challenges facing the coalition government in its efforts to cut welfare dependency.