Automation will produce significant productivity gains that will reshape specific sectors and occupations. These gains are likely to be recirculated, with jobs reallocated rather than eliminated, ...

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IPPR North is the leading think tank based in the north of England. We are researchers, communicators, and policy experts who develop bold, progressive ideas to empower England’s regions so that ...

One-half of adults in this country voted at the 2024 general election, the lowest share of the population to vote since universal suffrage. This report takes a first look at who spoke in the 2024 UK ...

IPPR Scotland shapes public policy in pursuit of a fairer, greener, more prosperous Scotland. Through policy, research, and communications, we work to create tangible progressive change, and turn bold ...

Our education system faces a significant and urgent challenge: ensuring equitable access to an excellent education in the context of acute budget pressures. We need to keep improving education ...

After a year of unprecedented meteorological extremes, the impacts of climate-induced catastrophes are finally getting some attention. The number of catastrophic meteorological events has already ...

Lowering tax on profits is not a ‘magic bullet’ to boost much-needed economic growth, says IPPR paper Despite a “race to the bottom” on corporation tax, UK business investment has been among lowest of ...

Excluded children are the most vulnerable: twice as likely to be in the care of the state, four times more likely to have grown up in poverty, seven times more likely to have a special educational ...

As well as compelling moral reasons to reduce NHS waiting lists, there is also a convincing economic case to go further and faster on elective recovery. We find that delivering against the target set ...

Two years on from the UK government’s promise to level up, the rhetoric has reached fever pitch, but its definition and the policies to deliver it remain elusive. This year’s State of the North report ...

It causes a damaging impact on individuals, but it also brings a loss of human potential and increased demand for a variety of public services. That in turns bears significant individual and economic ...