Torsten Bell
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Chief Executive, @resfoundation.
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Excellent article from Torsten Bell in the Guardian.
You'd be forgiven for thinking otherwise, but political polarisation in the UK is *lower* today than 40 years ago. We are not the US.
UK voters are not polarised, just 'pissed off and volatile'.
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Read Torsten Bell on 5 things to know to end UK child poverty:
1. Poverty has changed
2. Child poverty is about larger families
3. It’s the lives behind the statistics that matter
4. Everyone pays the price of a high-poverty Britain
5. Progress can be made
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“Scrapping the two-child benefit cap has real costs (£2.5bn) but they are nothing compared to the costs of keeping it: abolition will immediately lift about half a million children out of poverty. Change can come.” Torsten Bell The Guardian theguardian.com/society/articl…
“What is the case for tackling child poverty? Can we make a dent in it? How? These questions have not been at the centre of British politics for the past 14 years... But they should.” Torsten Bell sets out a great case. #LetsEndPoverty theguardian.com/society/articl…
🌟 NEW EPISODE: Is the Bank of England really a secret political player?
With an all-star cast
Liz Truss
Ed Balls
💸 Andy Haldane
Torsten Bell
Harriett Baldwin MP
Izabella Kaminska
& inside the Monetary Policy Committee on cutting interest rates
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This evening we're in Bradford with Tracy Brabin WY 🌹, K England CBE 💙, Rozina Breen, Hannah Slaughter and Torsten Bell to discuss how West Yorkshire can help to end economic stagnation.
This contains (we believe) Patrick Wallis Meredith M. Paker the first calculation of the elasticity of the labour supply to the firm for the 18C (fun!!) . It indicates this big construction employer had a very high level of wage setting power, consistent with the very nominally rigid day rates