James Plunkett
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James works for the Resolution Foundation and is Secretary to the Commission on Living Standards. He joined the Resolution Foundation in October 2010, prior to which he was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. From 2008 to 2009 he worked in the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit at Number 10 Downing Street, where he focused on a range of issues including education, social mobility and technology policy. He has also worked in the Cabinet Office and as a strategy consultant in the private sector.

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Would a £10k Allowance be a Radical Legacy?

0 Comments | Posted 15 March 2012 | 10:50

Next Wednesday George Osborne looks set to announce a further increase in the personal allowance. With the PA already set to hit £8,105 in April, a further rise to around £8,800 in 2013 would keep the government on track for its £10k target by election day.

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Are the Tories Losing the Generation Game?

0 Comments | Posted 5 December 2011 | 23:00

If last week filled in the blanks on the economic story of the next few years, it also opened up a deeper set of questions about what the new economic landscape means for our culture and politics.

Of course, the full answer will only become clear in hindsight and,...

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