Publications
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Economics & Social Policy Publications

2056: What future for Maggie’s Children?
Roger GoughUsing demographic projections to map key public policy challenges UK society faces over the next 50 years, Policy Exchange – together with charity Age Concern – has commissioned MPs, academics and business figures to consider the policy tools needed for younger generations to be able to approach later life with confidence.

No More School Run
Policy ExchangeNo More School Run: Proposal for a national yellow bus scheme in the UK argues that a system of school buses would increase punctuality for all road users, have economic benefits and improve quality of life.

Paying For Local Investment: New Finance Mechanisms for Local Government
Policy Exchange Read Publication By Richard Murphy This report is a supplement to a previous joint report by nefand Policy Exchange on the reform of the revenue finance system of local government in England, Nothing to lose but your chains: Reforming the English local government...
Not Working: Why workfare should replace the New Deal
Policy ExchangeThis report concludes that the solution to the problem of long-term youth unemployment is to replace the New Deal with Workfare, pioneered in Wisconsin, which has successfully and efficiently reduced welfare rolls.

Left Out, Left Behind: The people lost to Britain’s workforce
Policy ExchangeThis report examines how to identify and help the 7.7 million people of working age classed as ‘economically inactive’.