Nick Pearce
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Nick Pearce31st March 2016
When the sun rises on workers' wages, and what to do when it sets
Californian workers have enjoyed a week of sunshine. The Governor of California, Jerry Brown, has reached a deal with labour unions and state political leaders to raise the Californian minimum wage to $15 an hour (£10.45 at current exchange rates)....
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Nick Pearce17th March 2016
Disability Benefits
The day after a Budget is usually a difficult one for any Chancellor, but this year, George Osborne has been subject to sustained and withering scrutiny, most notably on the failure to meet his fiscal targets and the shunting around...
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Nick Pearce16th March 2016
Graham Room on alternatives to austerity: Budget day lessons from Keynes
Nationally and internationally, economic growth – such as there was – is faltering. China’s slowdown has prompted falls on the Asian and global stock markets. The US Fed’s signal that interest rates may soon rise – and QE wind down...
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Nick Pearce14th March 2016
Michael Jacobs on high pressure for low emissions - how civil society created the Paris climate agreement
Michael Jacobs, visiting fellow at IPPR, and visiting professor at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science, writes the story of how civil society mobilised to secure the...
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Nick Pearce8th March 2016
..and justice for all? Basic Income and the Principles of Gender Equity
Caitlin McLean, of the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, University of California-Berkeley, writes on basic income and gender equity Cross-posted from the website of the journal Juncture http://www.ippr.org/juncture International interest in universal basic income[1] proposals has increased...
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Nick Pearce29th February 2016
On Ministers and Mandarins
The accountability of senior civil servants, and how far they should be independent of politicians or responsible to them, has been a recurrent theme of recent British political history. During the Blair years, retired mandarins muttered darkly of sofa government...
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Nick Pearce19th February 2016
With record employment rates, why is working life not more visible?
This week official statistics showed that, at 74.1%, the employment rate is at its highest since comparable records began in 1971. Nearly 23 million Britons work full time, and 8.43 million part time. In total, we work in excess of...
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Nick Pearce12th February 2016
At a low ebb or in terminal decline? The future of social democracy
I wrote this short blog for The Staggers this week on the future of the left, with particular reference to European social democracy: "There are plenty of grounds for pessimism about the left’s prospects and they are well rehearsed. Across...
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Nick Pearce2nd February 2016
After Brexit: The Eurosceptic vision of an Anglosphere Future
Now that the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, has published the proposed reforms to the relationship between the UK and the EU, and the Prime Minister, David Cameron, has endorsed them as the basis for the UK’s continued...
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Nick Pearce20th January 2016
New Canada, New Labour: Trudeau takes a lesson in Blairite government
As the Labour Party wrestles over whether to honour or disown its New Labour past, Canada’s new Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, has been busy assembling the architecture of a Blairite central government. Trudeau’s youth, good looks and self-declared “sunny ways”...