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And the result is... Supreme Court rules that Uber drivers ARE workers, because Uber exercised such significant control of them (ie telling them how they can/can't operate) that it's hard
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Public sector finance stats this morning actually tell you quite a lot about the big picture of this crisis once you dig under the “loads of borrowing” headline. A thread...
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2021 - the year of recovery? Yes for GDP, not so much for household incomes. In fact our living standards will decline - especially for lower income households - as
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A one off payment to those on Universal Credit to compensate for planned £1000 cut in April is not a good idea for two big reasons https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/rishi-sunak-plans-500-gift-for-benefit-claimants-to-avoid-tory-upris
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As we head into a new lockdown, what lessons does the first lockdown have to teach us about what's to come in the grim weeks ahead? A thread.https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/lockdown-lessons/ The big
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A massive £800 billion is missing from official measures of wealth - all held by the very wealthiest families. Top finding from the first @resfoundation paper of 2021 The result?
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One of the odd things about 21st Century Britain is that neither main party has any idea what our nation’s comparative advantage is - or even should be.https://twitter.com/anandMenon1/status/1343227556665978880 Popular: talking
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Something we didn't have time to do justice to overnight... defence spending. I think most people will be quite surprised by what is going on You'll remember a few weeks
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We're now eight months into this crisis - what has it done to family budgets? A thread. The economy reopening over the summer only saw small reductions in income falls
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More I ponder it, more the full reversal of economic policy today to where we were in lockdown I (ie full furlough everywhere for every sector) is extraordinary It's hard
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Right - economic support package is: 1) full furlough at 80% of previous wages 2) widest possible eligibility = all sectors and all workers (ie you didn’t need to be
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We do know that almost no-one is actually down the pub don't we? They're at home - where they've been spending far more time than normal for months & will
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