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IFS issues frequent press releases and observations and features regularly in online, broadcast and printed media. Staff also write and contribute to news articles.
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We have remarkably reduced the fraction of national income we devote to public spending on education in the past decade.
Observation
Areas with larger ethnic minority populations experienced greater reductions in emergency admissions during the first ten months of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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We publish a report in partnership with the Sutton Trust that ranks universities in terms of their contributions to social mobility.
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We have remarkably reduced the fraction of national income we devote to public spending on education in the past decade.
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We publish a report in partnership with the Sutton Trust that ranks universities in terms of their contributions to social mobility.
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New analysis uses both aggregate and household-level data to argue that household savings leading to an consumption boom is unlikely, despite widespread increases in savings.
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In the current year (2021–22), core school spending per pupil is expected to be highest in Scotland (over £7,500), similar levels in England (£6,700) and Wales (£6,600), and lowest in Northern Ireland (£6,400).
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Daniel Prinz, Research Economist and Country Programme Manager for Ethiopia at the IFS and TaxDev, was awarded an honourable mention by the National Tax Association’s Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2021.
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This year’s historic, and manifesto-breaking, announcements of tax rises will increase the UK’s tax take to its highest sustained level in peacetime. Spending will settle at 42% of national income, more than 2% above its pre-pandemic level and its highest level in ‘normal times’ since 1985.
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Looking ahead to the forthcoming Spending Review, this Green Budget chapter finds that relying on council tax alone to deal with funding pressures is unlikely to be sustainable.
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Our Green Budget analysis finds that achieving net zero emissions by 2050 will not be easy – the pace of emissions reductions will need to accelerate significantly.