Movements change the world. Throughout history, loosely organised networks of individuals and organisations have sought changes to societies – and won. From the abolitionist struggle and campaigns for ...

The pressing social and economic challenge posed by wealth inequality in the UK is today freshly analysed in a new Institute for Public Policy Research paper. Wealth, which is increasingly accumulated ...

An insight into why we might privilege social justice, over criminal justice Prison does not only impact and harm those who are directly locked up; prisons affect all of us. Yet many of us don’t ...

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We are committed to being open about our funding and have received the highest transparency rating from the ‘Who Funds You?’ project. We work with and are supported by charitable trusts, foundations, ...

Ahead of the new government’s first budget, the chancellor’s challenge is twofold. First, raising tax revenues to sustain the government spending needed to restore core public services and launch new ...

Our major programmes are long-term initiatives taking a fresh approach to vital policy challenges. Across our programmes and through our pioneering participative research, we combine expert knowledge ...

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 ...

This is not because we have less staff overall. Rather, it’s because of a growing and sustained mismatch between worker-demand and worker-supply. A vicious cycle emerged during austerity and worsened ...

As part of IPPR Scotland’s work in partnership with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on poverty in Scotland, we have been travelling across the country to hear from people living at the sharp end of ...

In this paper we trace the emergence of a poorly understood social challenge and one which symbolises Britain’s broken ‘social settlement’: the continued rise in working poverty since the beginning of ...

A declining labour share of national income, together with unequal capital ownership, mean wealth inequality in the UK has risen and is set to rise further. This policy paper sets out why a Citizens’ ...