⏰ | NEW REPORT: A stark divide in health & wealth throughout the UK is leaving many ‘bad health blackspots’ sicker and poorer than their neighbours. Our latest paper looks at the causes behind this divide, & proposes ambitious solutions.

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ippr.org/articles/healt… If everywhere in the UK was as healthy as Wokingham, we'd be the healthiest country in the world - and much wealthier too. But people in areas like Liverpool are almost 3x more likely to be ill than those in places like Oxfordshire, and 2x as likely to be economically inactive.

🚨 State of Health & Care 2022 🚨

Our major annual report warns that declining access to and quality of NHS care has begun to supercharge a drive towards people paying for private medical treatment - a trend that threatens the foundations of our NHS... 1/🧵 2/ The pandemic has forced many to contemplate private healthcare for the first time

New IPPR/YouGov polling reveals that a third of adults struggled to access NHS care during the pandemic

This led the equivalent of 2 million to seek private care

The NHS should be a truly universal healthcare system

Yet the migrant charging system means that some people are charged an extortionate 150% of the cost of their healthcare

Our new report finds this cruel system is unfit for purpose - here's why... 1/
ippr.org/research/publi… The system of NHS charging has become increasingly stringent under the hostile environment 🚧

Through interviews conducted with other overseas visitors officers, patients and doctors we uncovered a highly complex, ineffective, costly system which incentivises racial profiling 2/

How can movements for economic and social justice achieve meaningful change?

There is a risk that a lot of 'activity' is done, but it doesn't create lasting change. Understanding how movements succeed is vital for addressing injustice

🧵THREAD of insights from our new report 1/ From voting rights to #BlackLivesMatter, the impact of movements can be seen everywhere

Working with @RunnymedeTrust we looked at the LGBTQ+ rights, race equality, climate action, & health inequality movements, to learn from those that have made change 2/
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🚨 | NEW REPORT: The anti-poverty and environmental movements must unite in common cause

We've been working with @jrf_uk & @zeroc_official
to explore the risks and benefits of the net zero transition for those living in poverty

🧵Here's what we found bit.ly/FairNet0 Anti-poverty perspectives are vital for a successful net zero transition that alleviates poverty rather than exacerbates it

Our roundtables with climate and anti-poverty campaigners revealed the clear benefits a green transition could bring, as long as policy is well designed...

🚨 Revealed: Working family poverty is now at a record high this century, fuelled by spiralling housing costs and childcare challenges

1 in 6 working households now face poverty

It's time to end the scourge of in-work poverty
ippr.org/research/publi… New IPPR analysis of DWP data shows the UK’s relative poverty rate among working households has hit a record high of 17.4%

Working poverty rates among families with three or more children have reached 42%, up more than two thirds over the past decade

🚨 NEW 🚨 750,000 viable jobs are unnecessarily put at risk by Sunak’s #budget2021

A stimulus half the size it needed to be + lack of a follow-up work support scheme post furlough in September means unemployment could rise to 2.7 million by this time next year 1/4 In his budget Rishi Sunak should have “boosted it like Biden” to secure a strong and sustainable recovery

A big stimulus would prevent such a steep rise in unemployment by delivering higher public investment, more jobs, stronger public services and providing targeted support 2/4

🚨 Revealed – Lockdown measures are protecting landlords, banks and lenders more than the families they are meant to benefit

Our new report shows the poorest are unfairly shouldering the greatest economic risk (thread) bit.ly/IPPRrent Economists @L__Macfarlane, @oeufling & @shreyagnanda warn that UK inequalities will widen as a result of lockdown measures

Families in upper pay brackets are more able to work from home and are likely to be spending less and saving more… bit.ly/IPPRrent

🚨 NEW POLL

IPPR/@YouGov public attitudes poll finds a 60% majority in favour of significant changes to the way the economy is run with just 2% for the status quo

Support for fundamental economic reform cuts across party and Brexit divides THREAD 1/6
ippr.org/research/publi… There's profound scepticism about the economic settlement across all parties

59% agree the economy mainly works for people with high incomes & for big companies

56% agree the gap between wealthy and the rest has widened too much (2/6) bit.ly/IPPRpoll