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Austerity still biting unprotected departments like prisons, transport and environment

New analysis from NEF shows unprotected departments cut by a further 1.2% per person by 2023/24

Why everyone earning less than £125,000 should be given £48 per week

Alfie Stirling writes for iNews

Scrap personal allowance and replace with a new weekly cash payment

New Economics Foundation proposes the creation of a new Weekly National Allowance for all adults earning under £125,000 a year

Average weekly hours fell faster between 1946 and 1979 than post-1980

There is a bold answer to Britain's childcare crisis: a shorter working week

Alice Martin writes for Tribune

NEF in the news, February 2019

Media coverage of the New Economics Foundation

New analysis reveals how much austerity has cost each person in the UK

Alfie Stirling writes for Left Food Forward

Austerity hitting UK economy by almost £100bn this year - more than £3,600 per household

New NEF analysis shows cuts to government spending since 2010 have dampened GDP growth in every subsequent year

The Honda closure and the weakness in the British economy

Alice Martin writes for the New Statesman

NEF in the news, December 2018/January 2019

Media coverage of the New Economics Foundation

FCA should go further and impose cap on overdraft fees to stop banks profiting from people's misery

NEF in the news, November 2018

Media coverage of the New Economics Foundation

Our fetishisation of overwork Is harming us and the economy

Aidan Harper writes for Huffington Post

Stalling productivity and high working hours shows the economy not working for many

New Economics Foundation react to today’s ONS stats

£3.5bn real terms cuts to unprotected budgets after 2020

Analysis from the New Economics Foundation shows that unprotected budgets will still face cuts after 2020 despite austerity “coming to an end”

NEF in the news, October 2018

Media coverage of the New Economics Foundation

What it takes to ‘end austerity’ for real: NEF responds to PM speech

Analysis from the New Economics Foundation shows services with no current spending protections could see further real-terms cuts of 2.1% after 2020

Guardians of the Arches in the news

Media coverage of the campaign to save the railway arches