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With more people living in the private rented sector, what does this mean for living standards?
Private renters in the UK spend on average 35 per cent of their income on housing costs, consistently above the (widely used) 30 per cent affordability ratio.
Over the past two decades, pensioner incomes have grown by 20 per cent, while those of working-age families have grown by just 7 per cent.
Given these trends, surely it is time to include the Triple Lock in debates around stemming the growth in welfare spending?
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Last week, @sarahoconnorft.ft.com spoke to us about the different stories of work and automation she encountered while writing her new book.
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Ruth Curtice and Greg Thwaites sat down with Sarah O'Connor to talk about her new book, discussing the past, present, and future of technological transformations in the labour market.
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When to stop the triple lock is a fundamental debate that we need to have ahead of the next election.
A ‘smoothed’ earnings link would be the best replacement for the triple lock.
Read more on how that could work➡️ buff.ly/FY93tV6
State Pension spending accounts for nearly half of the projected increase in social security spending by 2029-30.
It is not fiscally sustainable for the State Pension to rise forever by more than the earnings of a typical worker.
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Pensioner incomes had caught up with non-pensioner incomes by the time the triple lock was introduced.
The triple lock, then, can take no credit for the dramatic fall in pensioner poverty in the 2000s.
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The Government should call time on the Triple Lock.
The policy has been far too expensive, failed to reduce poverty, and is unhelpfully arbitrary.
Read the full report here➡️ buff.ly/FY93tV6
🧵It’s time to stop being polite about the triple lock! It was always a poorly designed, unfair, arbitrary ratchet and we can no longer afford it. New @resolutionfoundation.org spotlight out this morning🧵
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New technologies have been creating and destroying jobs for millennia. In recent decades, automation has upended the way many people work, and now artificial intelligence threatens further upheaval.…
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The State Pension triple lock has delivered real gains for pensioners since its introduction in 2012. But the case for boosting pensioner incomes over and above others has now run out, while the case ...
