The government's Defence Investment Plan adds £3.8 billion a year, but how it will be funded and the path to 3.5% by 2035 ...

The government has chosen to follow the pay recommendations from the independent school teachers pay review body.

What makes a good job? This episode explores pay, progression, flexibility and why access to better work is unequal.

How have household incomes evolved over your lifetime? What is the gap between rich and poor? How many people are there in poverty? Which groups are most likely to face poverty? These questions are ...

Under the current higher education funding system in England, the government pays around £22 billion to fund the education of each cohort of around 490,000 England-domiciled full-time undergraduate ...

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The communications, finance and professional services teams work with IFS to ensure their research has the maximum impact.

Drawing on the IFS Deaton Review of inequalities, this report sets out a policy toolkit and applications to education, jobs, geography and wealth.

Our research covers a wide range of topics related to businesses and their investments, including firm productivity, ...

Why UK electricity prices are so high, how renewables affect costs, and what government can do to protect households from shocks.

Nominal GDP growth and debt interest spending as a % of GDP, by parliament, 1951 to present ...

James Callaghan (Labour Chancellor at the time) had made a speech announcing his intentions to make far-reaching changes to the tax system in his next Budget, including a capital gains tax and a ...