New Economics Foundation

Blog Decarbonising our shops, supermarkets and warehouses It's not just airlines and oil companies who will have to cut emissions — sectors like retail will have to change too. By Emily Scurrah 27 September 2021 From how we generate our energy to...

Blog Beyond the £20 uplift Options for reforming universal credit By Sarah Arnold, Dominic Caddick, Alfie Stirling 27 September 2021 The UK is facing a cost of living crisis which is set to sharpen...

Publications Great Homes Upgrade An investment and policy package to futureproof UK housing By Chaitanya Kumar 24 September 2021 Download the report Upgrading our old and leaky...

Blog Levelling-up from the ground up Helping neighbourhoods thrive means giving communities ownership of the buildings and spaces around them By Rose Grayston 20 September 2021 Depending on where you live in England, there can be huge differences...

Blog Reshaping finance for a green recovery An open Letter to the Governor of the Bank of England By Lukasz Krebel, Frank van Lerven 17 September 2021 More than 50 MPs and peers from across Britain’s main political parties have...

Blog Living standards face a perfect storm 2.5 million households will be hit by both universal credit cuts and national insurance increases By Sarah Arnold 16 September 2021 It is a worrying time for many UK households. Living costs are on the...

Publications Greening public finance The UK's public finance ecosystem and the net zero transition By Laurie Macfarlane, Chaitanya Kumar 09 September 2021 Download the report...

Blog Cold homes, hot planet We all want to come home to somewhere warm, but Britain's housing is cold, draughty, and powered by fossil fuels. By Margaret Welsh 19 August 2021 One week after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)...

Podcasts Weekly Economics Podcast: Where did our immigration system come from? Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by Ian Sanjay Patel By Ayeisha Thomas-Smith 13 August 2021 This week a controversial deportation flight took off for Jamaica. Legal...

Blog Quibbling about cost while the world burns Why are we arguing about the cost of net zero when facing mass extinction? By Chaitanya Kumar 13 August 2021 This week’s report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) couldn’t have...