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Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK in 2018
20th June 2018
Important new research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies especially for students and teachers wanting to top up their contextual knowledge about the key trends in inequality in the UK.
The main IFS report can be downloaded here
And here are some supporting tweets on the research from Paul Johnson, Chief Economist at the IFS.
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Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.
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