New Economics Foundation

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Publications I‑spy The billion-dollar business of surveillance advertising to kids By Duncan McCann 18 May 2021 Download the report Today, one in three internet users is a child, but they are using a digital...

Blog Where is the plan for social care? Despite promising to ‘fix’ social care, government has kicked the can down the road again By Daniel Button 13 May 2021 Despite promising to ​‘fix’ social care, it looks like the government has kicked the can down the road again. In...

Blog The Bank of England’s new ​‘net zero’ mandate could be a game changer Finance is no silver bullet for climate challenges but it is one of the single most important things to get right By Lukasz Krebel 06 May 2021 The Bank of England’s (BoE) Monetary Policy Committee...

Blog Is free personal care enough? A more expansive vision for social care needs to be at the centre of a universal offer By Daniel Button, Sarah Bedford 27 April 2021 For much of the past year, social care has been in the spotlight like never before....

Blog All eyes on us The Glasgow climate summit is a golden opportunity for the UK to sell its climate leadership internationally — and at home. By Chaitanya Kumar 26 April 2021 It was raining targets at the recent Earth Day climate leaders summit. President Biden announced...