Web links for 22nd November 2010

22 Nov 2010, by ToUChstone blog in Web links

• Grandmothers could cost families child benefit
  Lord Sassoon appears to admit in a House of Lords debate that a family could lose its Child Benefit if the grandmother is a higher rate taxpayer.
• The coalition’s 6p tax rise on 1.4m typical working families
  Alex Barker reports on SMF’s analysis of Universal Credit: overall, a typical working family will see a steady rise in their effective marginal tax rate of 6p in the pound.
• What has gone wrong with welfare-to-work?
  Alex Barker argues that Chris Grayling could argue correctly that the Flexible New Deal is underperforming badly in terms of job starts. But, strange to speak, he doesn’t acknowledge the important wasy in which the Work Programme will resemble it.
• George Osborne: Look and learn from across the Irish Sea
  Read the Chancellor’s 2006 Times article on the Irish economic miracle, where we learn that “a generation ago it would have seemed ridiculous to go to Ireland for economics lessons. Not any more”.