A new study by the thinktank Nesta has found that some parents are having to spend nearly 80% of their take-home pay on childcare as another study found an increasing shortage of childcare places.

Source: https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/23375644.local-labour-candidate-calls-radical-reform-childcare-system/?ref=rss

Bank of England concerns over the high level of pay awards are likely to be eased in the coming months as wage settlements fall in response to a tumbling annual inflation rate, a thinktank has said.

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Continued tough action by central banks to tackle stubborn inflation risks tipping Britain and other developed countries into recession next year, the west’s leading economic thinktank has warned.

Source: https://biztoc.com/x/8f128d9724f37e69?ref=ff

Last week, the Home Office minister Robert Jenrick gave a speech at the Policy Exchange thinktank, scattered with sentiments apparently copied straight from NatCon texts.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/30/national-conservatism-far-right-divisive-tories

More than 4 million people have skills that will be needed in retrofit jobs, but only 200,000 people are currently working to retrofit homes, Labour said, citing research by the progressive thinktank Autonomy.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/09/labours-plan-to-insulate-more-homes-would-create-4m-job-opportunities

On Tuesday, he gave a speech to the conservative thinktank Policy Exchange in which he defended the government’s new illegal immigration bill.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/30/diane-abbott-letter-shows-antiracism-reduced-to-decrying-white-privilege

Onward, a right of centre thinktank, produced a report last week in which it said the current crop of 25- to 40-year-olds was the first not to become more rightwing as it grew older, and housing is one reason for this.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jun/04/uk-property-market-lacks-spring-bounce-but-crash-unlikely

Raising the value of would have been preferable to sending lump sum payments to households, according to a leading UK economics thinktank which has dubbed the sporadic cash boost an “ineffective sticking plaster”.

Source: https://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/read-this/cost-of-living-payments-are-ineffective-sticking-plaster-warns-institute-of-fiscal-studies-4218718

Raj Patel, of the sustainability thinktank IPES-Food, said: “Just as with the influx of oil lobbyists, industrial agriculture businesses are scared.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/09/big-meat-dairy-lobbyists-turn-out-record-numbers-cop28

The Resolution Foundation thinktank says that by the end of the 2020s the average household will be paying £4,300 more in tax than they were in 2019.

Source: https://socialistworker.co.uk/news/tory-hunt-slashes-services-and-squeezes-workers/