Fresh thinking in economics
Dr Philip Alston and Human Rights Watch’s UK findings show that the current system must go beyond merely feeding people – it must have a holistic understanding of the importance …
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Wetherspoons has an app that allows customers to skip queuing at the bar to order food and drink. It also means you can play pranks, sending orders of peas or …
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MPs have demanded the Universal Credit roll-out is frozen until the government addresses the poverty they say it has fueled. Currently, there are just under 64,000 households receiving Universal Credit …
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Responding to research by Which? showing that 1,700 ATMs switched to charging in the first three months of 2019, David Clarke, head of policy at Positive Money said: “The shocking …
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The Trussell Trust foodbank network gave out a record 1.6 million parcels between April 2018 and March this year – up almost a fifth on the charity’s last count. More …
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Peter Manley questions the single number basis for claims that absolute poverty is on the wane. On 19 January, 2019 Bill Gates retweeted an infographic from Our World in Data — …
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Treasury Committee chair Nick Morgan has warned that the government may need to step in after more than 10,000 former Wonga customers were left out of pocket by the firm …
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Call for a development secretary ‘who actually believes in department’s mission’ Responding to press briefings this morning that Penny Mordaunt believes Britain’s aid budget to be ‘unsustainable’ and is proposing …
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Economists have long sought to maximise economic growth, believing this to be their best contribution to improving human welfare. That approach is not sustainable in the face of ongoing issues …
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Four million British workers are now living in poverty, according to a report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), a figure that has risen by over half a million compared …
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