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With Danny Alexander MP set to make a major speech on employee ownership tomorrow, the author of the SMF’s recent report on employee ownership, Mutually Assured Growth, sets out four policies that he hopes the Chief Secretary might take on.

On 6 January 2014 Amanda Wolthuizen will join the Social Market Foundation as Media and External Affairs Manager, taking over from Leonora Merry who leaves the SMF this month to join health think tank the Nuffield Trust.

This SMF response analyses some of the key announcements in the Chancellor's Autumn Statement, noting a remarkable focus on the long-term.

This Social Market Foundation pre-Autumn Statement briefing looks at the Chancellor's plan to target a surplus on the current structural budget and explores alternatives to cuts from 2017/18.

An ‘employee ownership bank’ is needed to support a more diverse economy, which could restore faith in alternative business structures following the failings at the Co-op Bank, the Social Market Foundation claims today in a new report supported by the John Lewis Partnership.

The ‘bank of mum and dad’ is a crucial source of welfare for people on low incomes and those not able to access it are at greater risk of isolation and poverty, the Social Market Foundation reveals today.

The UK Higher Education system has become ‘so lopsided away from teaching’ that it requires a ‘real cultural change’, Universities Minister David Willetts says today in a new pamphlet for the think tank the Social Market Foundation.

SMF Deputy Director Nigel Keohane responds to a new report from the National Audit Office on the progress of the Government’s flagship welfare reform programme.

Radical thinking is required to restore public support for the welfare state and get people saving adequately, former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Lord John Hutton claims in the foreword to the SMF think tank’s new publication Beveridge Rebooted.