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Blog Boris Johnson is right to be worried about the cost of childcare Nurseries are providing a critical public service, but with the financial challenges of a private business. By Lucie Stephens 24 September 2020 Stories emerged over the weekend that the Prime Minister is worried about the cost of...

Blog Furlough: where did the hours go? The economic fallout from Covid-19 is likely to significantly increase regional inequalities By Alex Chapman, Lukasz Krebel 23 September 2020 As we stare down the barrel of a second Covid-19 wave, the government’s plan to end the Job Retention...

Blog The dodgy economics behind expanding our airports Despite what airport executives say, expanding our airports won’t tackle unemployment or bring more money to the UK. By Alex Chapman 15 September 2020 Given the widely publicised collapse in international air travel, you’d be forgiven for assuming...

Blog Use Covid recovery to get to net zero: the Citizens Assembly’s verdict From upgrading our homes to a Frequent Flyer Levy, our economic recovery from Covid-19 must be green. By Chaitanya Kumar 11 September 2020 In the first of its kind in the UK, a National Citizens Assembly has deliberated and this...

Blog Light on the horizon: the story of the Eastbourne fishing quay How fishers in Eastbourne worked together to build their own community fishing quay By Chris Williams 24 August 2020 Good things come to those who wait, or so that saying goes. Like so many small-scale fleets across the UK, fishers in...

Blog Scrapping Public Health England is the wrong way to shake up public health Covid-19 shines a light on health inequalities, but scrapping Public Health England makes further inaction more likely. By Daniel Button 20 August 2020 The government announced earlier this week that it will scrap Public...

Podcasts Weekly Economics Podcast: Covid-19 and global capitalism Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by Dr Tobias Franz, Lecturer in Economics at SOAS and Shreya Nanda, Economist at IPPR By Ayeisha Thomas-Smith 14 August 2020 It’s a cliche by now to say that Covid-19 has upended our economy. Industries have...

Videos Building a green stimulus for Covid-19 Lukasz Krebel explains NEF's recovery plan for a greener, fairer future By Lukasz Krebel 11 August 2020 The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a deep economic shock, and the latest forecasts show that there could be 3 million people out of work by next Christmas....

Podcasts Weekly Economics Podcast: How do we win a green recovery? Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by NEF Head of Environment and the Green Transition, Chaitanya Kumar and Fatima Zahra-Ibrahim co-director of Green New Deal UK By Ayeisha Thomas-Smith 07 August 2020 We’re facing two global crises. We have...

Blog Road to Recovery Decarbonising the Bank of England’s pandemic QE By Frank van Lerven 04 August 2020 Imagine, successfully side-stepping an oncoming car only to be hit by a massive lorry. That is what will happen if policymakers try to recover our economy from the coronavirus pandemic without...