New Economics Foundation

It is now almost ten years since the onset of the global financial crisis, but its impacts are still being felt across the UK. Thanks to weaknesses and irresponsibility in the financial sector, millions of ordinary people were left to pay a huge price. And while measures were introduced – in the UK and other developed economies – to ensure that the tragic human cost of the crisis does...

Statement in response to today’s court decision dismissing Uber’s appeal against an employment tribunal ruling that it should treat its drivers as “workers” who are entitled to basic rights such as the...

Up and down the country, there are people who so terrify the multinational chemicals giant Ineos that it went to court to take out an injunction against them, without even knowing their names....

It’s a year since irony ended and the nightmare began. I still struggle to associate the name Donald J. Trump with the office of US President. I’d prefer to keep pretending that his unsuitability for...

This September, Transport for London announced it would revoke Uber’s licence because it was not a ‘fit and proper’ company to run taxi services in the capital. The prospect of Uber losing its licence...

Politicians and economists have increasingly been talking about the risks of a future where robots make all of our jobs obsolete. But is that future already upon us? And in the meantime, are big...

Week ending 4 November 2017 Miatta Fahnbulleh: ‘People’s tolerance for an unfair economic model has hit a buffer’Our new Chief Executive, Miatta Fahnbulleh, was interviewed in the Guardian on how NEF’s moment has come to lead the fight against inequality. Read more “Nurseries need more funding and new ways of working”Lucie Stephens writes in Public Sector Focus on the government’s 30...

We recently launched our public land map, which helps to expose the government’s under-the-radar land sale. Today we want to talk about something more positive: the alternative to public land sales....

Tuesday 28 November 18:00-20:00Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre, 108 Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH The impact of the Article 50 negotiations on people’s lives and attitudes. The relationship between Brexit and democracy is fraught. For many, the vote to leave the European Union was a moment in which ‘the people’ were finally able to make their voice heard. But where are ‘the people’...

Friday 24 November 2017 09:00 – 13:00 1 Drummond Gate, London SW1V 2QQ All over the country, taxi drivers are coming together to develop co-operatives. This trend comes in the wake of serious concerns about the business model of taxi platforms like Uber and the quality of working conditions for their drivers. Taxi co-ops offer an alternative where the drivers themselves own, control and...