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    The IFS Green Budget will assess the state of the UK economy and the government’s fiscal position as attention turns towards next year’s election.

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    Education Inequalities - 2 year(s) ago

    Changes in education over time Education levels have risen over time, in the UK and internationally. The share of students achieving at least five good GCSEs or equivalent increased from under…

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    I’m naturally grumpy, and it’s been getting worse of late. It comes naturally to an economist. We tend to look at difficult things like costs and benefits, trade-offs, pros and cons. Our political leaders seem less and less willing to acknowledge that such trade-offs even exist. Apparently, we can have our cake and eat it. Cakeism makes me very grumpy indeed. A perennial favourite is the claim…

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    • Can we all eat cake? Political leaders should explain that is pure fantasy https://t.co/1cXe36rVFt via @PJTheEconomist

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    As the UK exits the most acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, attention has turned to ‘long COVID’, which is on the rise and becoming no less severe. We use data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study, collected during 2021, to learn more about the characteristics of long COVID sufferers, and to assess the impact long COVID has on labour market outcomes including hours, earnings and…

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