New Economics Foundation

Podcasts Weekly Economics Podcast: What will Biden’s America look like? Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by Kate Aronoff, staff writer at the New Republic By Ayeisha Thomas-Smith 01 April 2021 There’s a new president in the Oval Office and he’s ready to make some changes. Joe...

Blog The green homes grant was deeply flawed — but scrapping it is bad news With eight months until the COP climate summit, cutting our only major green stimulus policy doesn’t exactly scream ‘climate leadership’. By Rebekah Diski 31 March 2021 The UK has some of the...

Blog Three lessons from Bogota on making cities safer for women We need to ensure everyone has the right to move around freely and participate in public life By Tiffany Lam 30 March 2021 In the UK, Sarah Everard’s murder has prompted debate around women’s safety, with 80%...

Podcasts Weekly Economics Podcast: Changing the rules of our economy to stop environmental breakdown Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by Laurie Laybourn-Langton, co-author of the new book Planet On Fire, and NEF trustee By Ayeisha Thomas-Smith 19 March 2021 There are just...

Podcasts Weekly Economics Podcast: How can we make sure everyone has enough to live on? Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by NEF CEO Miatta Fahnbulleh and Sonali Joshi, co-founder of Excluded UK By Ayeisha Thomas-Smith 12 March 2021 Last week a video circulated of 800 people...

Blog Making government spending matter GDP, inflation and the government deficit reign supreme in the budget - but are they giving us the results that we want? By Daniel Button 10 March 2021 Our dominant approach to policymaking too often focuses on an excessively narrow...

Podcasts Weekly Economics Podcast: What’s Brexit done to fishing and farming? Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by NEF Associate Fellow, Chris Williams By Ayeisha Thomas-Smith 02 March 2021 We were supposed to have cast off the shackles of EU rules around farming and fishing....

Blog Some jobs won’t come back Over the last year, half a million people have lost jobs that will never return. Rishi Sunak has a chance to support them By Alex Chapman, Chaitanya Kumar, Alfie Stirling 01 March 2021 Ahead of the...

Blog Millions facing an income crisis across the country A third of the UK population is expected to fall into hardship by May By Sarah Arnold, Lukasz Krebel 01 March 2021 Things are maybe, possibly, starting to look up. The vaccination programme has...

Blog 10 years of hollowing out our benefits system If we’d stuck with the social security we had a decade ago, 1.5 million fewer people would be living in poverty By Sarah Arnold, Dominic Caddick, Lukasz Krebel 20 February 2021 Our...