Jonathan Portes: Last week, the Equality and Human Rights Commission published an analysis, by Howard Reed and me, of the impact … Continue reading “The Portes-Snowdon bet: will relative child poverty really rise above 37%?”

Most people in poverty in the UK are white. According to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) report on … Continue reading “Stop denigrating work – it’s the best route out of poverty”

In a recent article on CapX, Adam Memon made the case for the minimum wage to be increased to the … Continue reading “The risks of lifting the minimum wage”