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Stephen Boyd

@stephenboydecon

Director IPPR Scotland.

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Maryhill, Glasgow ippr.org/scotland Joined February 2011
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Wrote a short piece for today's @Daily_Record looking back at a week dominated by the Spring Statement and publication of the latest child poverty statistics

dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/…
www.dailyrecord.co.uk Rachel Reeves must rethink fiscal rules as welfare cuts will inflict real pain Writing for the Record, Stephen Boyd of IPPR Scotland urges Rachel Reeves to consider alternative means to raise badly needed revenues for public services.
Stephen Boyd @stephenboydecon
Today @IPPRScotland publishes new analysis showing that by 2030 child poverty in Scotland will be:

- well below the rest of the UK due to devolved policies
- more than twice as high as the Scottish Government's current target

ippr.org/articles/achie…
www.ippr.org Achieving the 2030 child poverty target: The distance left to travel | IPPR While 2023 will be the first year we see the full impact of the 'game changing' Scottish Child Payment, there is widespread pessimism that the target will
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