Blog Living Income campaign and website launched Website, report and event kick off campaign to transform social security in the UK By Clifford Singer 17 June 2021 The campaign for a Living Income that ensures everyone has enough to live on launched on 17 June 2021, with a...
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Publications We can win a decent standard of living for everyone Introducing the Living Income campaign. 17 June 2021 Download the pamphlet A Living Income sets a level below which no one can fall, so we can all survive and thrive. In these uncertain times, we should...
Read More »Weekly Economics Podcast: Culture wars
Podcasts Weekly Economics Podcast: Culture wars Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by Hanna Thomas Uose and David Wearing By Ayeisha Thomas-Smith 11 June 2021 This week, the front page of the Daily Mail screamed “Outrage as Oxford students plan to axe queen”. In reality, a...
Read More »Preparing for a just transition in Yorkshire and the Humber
Blog Preparing for a just transition in Yorkshire and the Humber Workers and communities must be involved to ensure a fair approach to industrial change By Rebekah Diski 10 June 2021 Climate action and ‘levelling up’ don’t have to be incompatible, but workers and...
Read More »Powering the just transition
Publications Powering the just transition Putting workers and unions at the centre of industrial change in Yorkshire and the Humber By Rebekah Diski, Alex Chapman, Chaitanya Kumar 09 June 2021 Download the...
Read More »We don’t need cuts to pay back pandemic debt
Blog We don’t need cuts to pay back pandemic debt This hangover of the austerity mentality is both unnecessary and inaccurate By Dominic Caddick 07 June 2021 With the economy reopening, it looks like the UK is slowly emerging from the economic fallout of the pandemic. As...
Read More »Outsourcing as a threat to public health
Publications Outsourcing as a threat to public health The case for insourcing public sector cleaners and facilities management By Aidan Harper, Rebecca Winson 03 June 2021 Download the report...
Read More »The Croydon Climate Crisis Commission Report
Publications The Croydon Climate Crisis Commission Report The transition to net zero 28 May 2021 Download the report The clock is ticking on climate change and our ability to stem the worst impacts of a warming world. As we recover from the Covid-19 pandemic, we need to...
Read More »Public debt – the untold story
Blog Public debt — the untold story Fetishizing public debt doesn't give us the full picture on the economy and the role of government borrowing By Frank van Lerven 26 May 2021 Like the 2008 global financial crisis before it, in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic an all too...
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Publications Turbulence expected The climate cost of airport expansion By Alex Chapman, Marc Postle 21 May 2021 Download the report Despite the challenging period that the UK aviation sector...
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