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NEW PODCAST: Can the government make us eat more healthily?
🎙️@HelenMiller_IFS, @GautamVyasEcon and guest @HenryDimbleby examine government efforts to improve diets, and what difference weight-loss drugs could make, in our new podcast on the economics of healthy eating:
Is taxing sugar effective?
🎧 In last week's episode of IFS Zooms In, @HelenMiller_IFS, @GautamVyasEcon and food policy expert @HenryDimbleby discussed options for the government to encourage healthy eating:
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Interesting rumour: would increase work incentives for young people currently claiming universal credit. It would also increase the level of earnings you can have while still being eligible for UC, so more young people would be eligible to claim.
EXCL: Alan Milburn will demand a new 'work allowance' for young people when he publishes his major report into 'Neets' crisis next week.
Set at a value of 16 hours a week at the minimum wage, it would stop their Universal Credit being reduced from the first pound they earn.
He says the current system "makes trying a job feel like a gamble many young people can’t afford to take".
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The Milburn Review into rising number of young people not in employment, education or training is due out this month.
A brief🧵on what we know about the rise and the key questions we'll be looking at when the review comes out:
NEW: What are the challenges for this month's Milburn Review?
Our new comment explores why the UK’s NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) rate has risen since the pandemic, and suggests the key questions to ask when evaluating the Milburn Review's policy proposals ⬇️
"Tackling the problem will require action across several fronts."
Read the full comment by @LatimerEduin, @matthewoulton, Imran Tahir and @xiaoweixu_ here: ifs.org.uk/articles/challeng…
ALT Quote from Xiaowei Xu, Senior Research Economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. The quote reads: "The Milburn Review faces a difficult task. There are a range of factors behind the rising NEET rate, not all of them fully understood. Tackling the problem will require action across several fronts: helping young people overcome barriers to work, improving opportunities for education and training, and incentivising employers to offer more jobs. Given the very different circumstances of young people who are NEET, a one-size-fits-all approach is unlikely to work."
📊 #IFSSatStat: Last week the Chancellor announced a one-off £100 payment to households, the temporary removal of VAT on electricity, and an extended fuel duty freeze and cut.
This gives households a £140 boost on average, which covers 35% of the forecast rise in energy bills.
ALT Chart shows average support and forecast energy bill increases (Oct 2026 to Jun 2027). Title states: "The temporary cost of living measures announced in the Budget will cover around 35% of the forecast rise in energy bills for households."
📗 Read all our analysis on the Autumn Budget 2026 here: ifs.org.uk/collections/autum…
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🚨NEW @theIFS analysis of Welsh Government's updated Health and Social Care Budget.
Despite top-ups, it is still set to be 1.2% LOWER in real-terms than the final budget for Health and Social Care last year.
Big productivity increase needed to avoid falls in performance...
How could the government reduce energy prices?
@HelenMiller_IFS untangles electricity levies and their implications for prices, as well as the options available to the government, at a Treasury Select Committee @HoCcommitteesUK session on Tuesday:
🎧️ Have you listened to our IFS Zooms In episode on electricity prices yet?
Catch up here: ifs.org.uk/articles/are-rene…
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(Trains permitting!) I'm looking forward to speaking at @CIPFA's CFO summit on #Budget2026, fiscal devolution and council funding.
As my @theIFS colleagues have said, a tough 2027 Spending Review looms - as illustrated in this scenario showing example spending trade-offs...
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Perhaps worth saying that this kind of cross-country collaboration, where we all worked on best microdata available in each country, feels like the kind of work that would be particularly hard for AI to do in the future!
Why have European and North American countries become more similar in their levels of income inequality?
Results from our new paper published in @PNASNews.
We study income inequalities across 17 European and North American countries.
pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pn…
Institute for Fiscal Studies retweeted
Why have European and North American countries become more similar in their levels of income inequality?
Results from our new paper published in @PNASNews.
We study income inequalities across 17 European and North American countries.
pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pn…
"I can't imagine that anybody in the Treasury could have looked at the evidence around entrepreneurship and thought this was a good policy."
🎧 Listen to @HelenMiller_IFS discuss the new Founders' Relief at yesterday's Treasury Select Committee @HoCcommitteesUK session:
"If you take that list of 98 measures, what I see sadly is just lots of fiddling and no, I don't see a strategy."
🎧️ Listen to @HelenMiller_IFS share her views on the tax measures announced during the Budget at this morning's Treasury Select Committee @HoCcommitteesUK session:
🚨 Last chance to apply! Applications close soon for the following roles:
📊 Research Economist (apply by 8 November)
📊 Research Economist - postdoctoral (apply by 15 November)
📊 Postdoctoral Fellow (apply by 15 November)
Find out more here: ifs.org.uk/jobs
