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Month: March 2020

The End of Austerity Speak

The United Kingdom has made its first step toward ending the rhetoric of fiscal austerity, yet reactions to the budget on 11th March demonstrate how engrained the austerity ideology is in the media.

The 2020 Budget

The day following the 2020 budget, PEF interviewed five members of the PEF Council on the new budget and the changing economic direction of the United Kingdom. Here are the interviews in full.

The Coronavirus Debt Crisis

UK household debt hit an all-time high before the Coronavirus. Now it’s the next crisis the government has to tackle – and only a suspension of repayments will do.

Coronavirus, Economic Crisis and Basic Income

A global economic crisis has been waiting to happen for several years, now Coronavirus is triggering that crisis. PEF Council member Guy Standing makes the case for introducing a Basic Income as a first step toward dealing with the pandemic.

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