New Economics Foundation

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...

Podcasts Weekly Economics Podcast: Fighting the climate crisis in the courts Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by Tessa Khan By Ayeisha Thomas-Smith 06 August 2021 With the COP26 global climate conference coming up later this year, we’re spending...

Blog Why trans liberation is a class issue Fergal O’Dwyer interviewed Nim Ralph about the dangers of ignoring the material conditions that shape trans people’s lives By Fergal O'Dwyer 05 August 2021 This is an article from the third issue of the...

Blog Big tech’s duty of care Lawyers and doctors have to act in their clients' best interests. What if Facebook and Google had to do the same? By Duncan McCann 03 August 2021 Imagine that you have a serious and embarrassing medical condition, or...

Podcasts Weekly Economics Podcast: fast fashion Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by Maxine Bédat By Ayeisha Thomas-Smith 03 August 2021 With the COP26 global climate conference coming up later this year, we’re spending five episodes this series...

Blog Not out of the woods yet Why it's still too soon for the furlough end game By Alex Chapman 02 August 2021 At the end of September the furlough scheme (official name: the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, or CJRS) will come to an end. This...