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Economic inequality and growth in the United Kingdom: Insights for the United States (opens in a new tab)
Blog SEP 1, 2014
By: Gavin Kelly
Economic Equity & Opportunity
Gavin Kelly is a leading media commentator on economics and public policy, writing for The Guardian, Financial Times, and other outlets, as well as being a regular blogger for the New Statesman.
He covers a wide range of issues spanning economic policy, low pay, welfare reform, public services, and social mobility. Kelly is executive chair of the Resolution Foundation and chief executive of the Resolution Trust. Previously he was chief executive of Resolution Foundation.
He joined the foundation from No. 10 Downing Street, where he worked as deputy chief of staff.
He spent more than a decade in Whitehall and was a member of the Council of Economic Advisors at HMT, the senior advisor to the secretary of state at the Department for Education and the Department for Communities and Local Government, deputy head of the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, and a member of the No. 10 Policy Unit.
Before working in government, he taught economics and politics at the University of Sheffield, where he received his doctorate.
Authored by Gavin Kelly
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