n/a

New Economics Foundation

October 16, 2020

Reform of Universal Credit could lift 500,000 people out of poverty, says NEF

The package would cost less than the £9.4 billion earmarked for the Job Retention Bonus.
September 28, 2020

COVID-19 economic fallout likely to significantly increase regional inequalities, says NEF

We must build a recovery on the back of good quality, well-paid work in green industries, says the New Economics Foundation.
September 23, 2020

Legal action accuses YouTube of breaching children's privacy

The class action seeks over £2.5 billion in damages for more than 5 million British children and parents.
August 9, 2020

Self-employment centres would help struggling workers and revive high streets, says NEF

Low-paid self-employed workers were unable to shift to home working during lockdown, unlike higher paid freelancers in professional services like consultancy or tutoring.
June 28, 2020

Government urged to cover nursery staff wages to protect sector from collapse

The report finds that without government intervention, the childcare sector will face mass redundancies.
May 13, 2020

Visits to parks down by 28% in poorest local authorities

In the poorest 20 local authorities, the number of people visiting parks is 28 percentage points lower than in the 20 local authorities with highest incomes, where there has been no change in park use at all.
May 4, 2020

Quakers join calls for a liveable income for all

The letter backs a temporary minimum income guarantee, which would be unconditional and not means tested at the point of access.
April 14, 2020

Up to 5.6 million people risk falling through cracks in government support

The New Economics Foundation proposal of a Minimum Income Guarantee is estimated to cost less than half the cost of the government’s current schemes.
January 31, 2020

Plan for social care should break private provider grip on the sector, says NEF

Care users and workers should benefit from any increased funding, rather than the owners of increasingly large private firms, according to a new report from the New Economics Foundation
November 21, 2019

Call for a Public Land and Housing Corporation to deliver zero carbon social homes

A new report says the government must be a major player in housing delivery, using public land and setting up a central government agency which directly develops homes itself.