New Economics Foundation

EVENT: King’s College London, 3pm-4.30pm Monday 19th February We live in an era of division. Many countries around the world are suffering stark inequalities between rich and poor, young and old, metropolitan and rural, settled and newcomer. And this is driving new and potentially dangerous forms of politics to the fore. There is an urgent need for ideas and initiatives to bridge these...

Report by NEON, NEF, Frameworks Institute and PIRC What is the story of the economy in Britain? Who gets to shape public opinion about what it’s for, how it’s broken and how it can be fixed? These are the questions the Framing the Economy project set out to answer. We wanted to help civil society communicate and organise more effectively, to help bring about the changes needed to move...

The collapse of Carillion and the plight of other outsourcing companies like Capita are the latest examples of what Bank of England chief economist Andy Haldane calls ‘shareholder capitalism eating...

Brexit dominates the news agenda. But with all the talk of the single market, impact assessments and trade deals, it sometimes feels as if this debate is only happening in the comment pages of...

On Thursday 25th January, demonstrators stormed the Royal College of Music in protest against the sacking of several night cleaners by the cleaning firm Tenon FM. The cleaners are currently on strike and serving out their notice periods after rejecting a new...

It’s difficult to properly grasp the human cost of cold homes. Whether it’s down to the dispassionate language of ‘excess winter mortality’, or the hidden way that cold temperatures lead to circulatory...

NEF’s Principal Fellow Anna Cootes writes for International Politics and Society on the challenges posed by Universal Basic Income and why there are better ways to address poverty and inequality.  When...

New analysis suggests more and more people are falling prey to problematic credit card debt Over four in ten (41%) are struggling to make it to payday; of these, half (50%) are worried about their credit card debt Stella Creasy MP warns Parliament must learn the lesson of payday lenders about intervention to prevent problem debt and pushes for a cap on the cost of credit British...

It is impossible to shut out so large a proportion of the population from something as essential as housing and not ultimately pay the political price. So it’s not surprising that both the Government...

Our CEO, Miatta Fahnbulleh, appeared on BBC Question Time last night. She discussed how the Government has failed in its ambitions to tackle inequality, and why the all-encompassing focus on Brexit means that we aren’t dealing with the real issues. On the Prime Minister’s failure to tackle inequality, Miatta said: “Time and time again she talks the talk and then when it comes to...