NEF in the news, February 2018
Media coverage of the New Economics Foundation
28 February 2018
Our CEO, Miatta Fahnbulleh, spoke on BBC Question Time this month about the Prime Minister’s failure to fight inequality, and how the obsessive focus on Brexit draws attention from urgent issues. Watch here
Migrant adult social care staff “add £4.4bn to English economy”
Our figures released to mark 1 Day Without Us showing the annual contribution of migrants working in the sector were covered in The Guardian
How language duped us into austerity
Our report on Framing the Economy was covered by The Guardian, VICE UK and OpenDemocracy
NHS land sell-off to house nurses branded “short on hard evidence” in damning report
Our report showing that homes built on sold-off NHS land will be unaffordable to nurses was cited in The Mirror, following a Parliamentary report criticising the Government’s plans. Read more
Opposition pledges a shift to co-operatively run public services
The Independent reported that we are writing a report on how to grow the co-operative sector, commissioned by the Co-Operative Party. Read more