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Only a minimum income can ensure support for everyone
Our research finds that under-25s, over-50s, non-white workers and women are at highest risk of losing work and missing out on government schemes. Alfie Stirling, Sarah Arnold and Lukasz Krebel report.
Mental health awareness isn't enough
It’s Mental Health Awareness Week – but there’s a national crisis that lies beneath the social media veneer, writes Jake Mills in the first of two articles from our forthcoming New Economics Zine. In the second, Sarah Arnold and Daniel Button argue we can't settle for awareness without proper mental health funding for prevention and treatment.
Community micro-enterprise in social care
Social care can drive inclusive economic development, both locally and nationally, write Sarah Bedford and Jasmeet Phagoora in our new report.
Lockdown has awoken the sleeping giant in our workplaces: union power
With a surge in membership under way during the coronavirus crisis, this is a once-in-a-generation chance to build unity, writes Rebecca Winson for the Guardian.
If the government takes a majority stake in our airlines it will put us and our climate on a path to recovery
Government intervention would protect workers and set the industry on course for a zero-carbon economy, writes Alex Chapman in the Independent.
The UK must freeze private rents now – or thousands will be made homeless
Struggling private renters cannot bear the economic burden of coronavirus, writes Joe Beswick in the Guardian.
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Weekly Economics Podcast: The future of social care after coronavirus
What’s gone wrong with social care and how can we fix it? Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by NEF head of social policy Sarah Bedford in the last of the current series.
Listen to all of our lockdown podcasts here. We'll be returning with a new series shortly.
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Weekly Economics Briefing 7: The future of social care after coronavirus
Featuring NEF social policy head Sarah Bedford, Unison organiser Conor McGurran, Women Budget Group’s Sue Himmelweit, care worker Jenny Daglish and Equal Care Co-op’s Emma Back.
Weekly Economics Briefing 6: Organising during the crisis
Featuring NEF Senior Organiser Becki Winson, author Sarah Jaffe, teacher and union rep Vik Chechi-Ribeiro, and mutual aid organiser Minda Burgos-Lukes.
Our weekly Zoom briefings have attracted hundreds of participants. We're taking a short break now, but will be back with more soon. In the meantime, watch all of the current series here.
IN THE NEWS
Under-25s ‘twice as likely to lose jobs’ during coronavirus crisis
New NEF research showing the groups of people most likely to lose their jobs and miss out on government schemes was covered in the Sun, the Daily Express and the Financial Times.
By protecting rentier interests, we are making the most vulnerable pay for the crisis
NEF’s rent suspension proposal was covered in the Guardian, Daily Express and openDemocracy.
Brexit trade deal: Who really owns UK fishing quotas?
NEF collaborated with the BBC on figures showing that a fifth of the annual value of the UK’s overall quota is held by foreign-owned companies.
UK exit plan, economic recovery, public sector pay and Brexit
Alfie Stirling appeared on the political panel on talkRADIO.
Millions missing out on Covid-19 support
Sarah Arnold spoke to Dan Wootton on talkRADIO about our research on those falling through the cracks in government support schemes.
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