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20 November 2011

What Britain must learn from the misfortunes of middle America

Gavin Kelly and Jared Bernstein discuss what Britain can learn from the US ahead of our event 'The Great Stagnation?'

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4 July 2011

Dilnot report: Older people deserve our care and support

John Healey writes on Comment is free about the changes to care and how it will impact on those on a low or middle income.

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29 May 2011

We must look to the unions to end this inexorable unfairness

Letter from Dr Ben Selwyn, University of Sussex, commenting on Gavin Kelly's Why the 'squeezed middle' is here to stay article.

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30 March 2011

National pay cut has only just begun

City A.M. Editor, Allister Heath uses Resolution Foundation figures to look at the recession's impact on wages.

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28 February 2011

Miliband's latest break with the past, Spectator Coffee House

As an independent creature, the Resolution Foundation's new Commission on Living Standards isn't doing Ed Miliband's work for him. But, boy, must the Labour leader be glad that they exist. At their launch event this morning, the "squeezed middle" – aka low-to-middle earners – suddenly took shape, writes Peter Hoskin.

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28 February 2011

The "squeezed middle": the key data, New Statesman

Writing on the New Statesman Staggers blog George Eaton discusses 'the wage squeeze, the rise in wage inequality and the coalition's benefit cuts'.

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20 February 2011

And as people get poorer, the buck stops with you, Mervyn King, The Observer

Commenting on stagnating wages and rising inflation, Will Hutton draws on Resolution Foundation research to detail the impact this 'freeze on living standards' will have on low to middle income households.

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3 February 2011

A taxing problem, alternative thinking required

The New Statesman Leader argues that the coalition's neglect of the "squeezed middle" presents opportunities for Labour.

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