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The five giants: Want

Ending poverty should be seen as an integral part of economic policy, not the enemy of or disconnected from it.

The coalition's policies are set to cause terrible hardship. Already, there's a shameful rise in the numbers of people having to...

12 days of Fabian Christmas: A New Golden Rule

During 2012 we launched our online format, with A New Golden Rule: Putting the corporate sector surplus at the heart of economic decision making being the very first Fabian online report.




In A New Golden Rule, Peter Kenway, Dan Corry and...

Breadline Britain and the big society

This week, as part of a London assembly investigation I am leading in to food poverty, results from a survey of teachers in London were published. This revealed that over 95 per cent of those teachers who responded said that...

Why the welfare uprating bill is bad economics

Much of the reaction to the chancellor’s decision to uprate most working age benefits and tax credits by just 1 per cent per annum for three years has focussed on questions of distribution. As the Resolution Foundation analysis demonstrated 60...

A Rainy Day Fund

The UK was hit particularly hard by the financial crisis, partly because it has a large financial sector relative to the size of the economy. The City is a great economic asset for Britain, but it is also a source...

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