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As more people find themselves in poverty, the play’s mix of fictional story with real-life testimony powerfully tells the story of what it’s like to navigate the benefits system in the UK.
Finding the right kind of support is a good business move.
Electricity prices are going up again by as much as 25% on July 1. The advice to consumers is to shop around to get the best deal. Yet neither electricity bills nor comparison sites are user-friendly.
Landlords don’t think renters will pay more for homes with rooftop solar. But the evidence suggests otherwise.
Change and communication across the food supply chain will help stop prices from rising further.
My research shows that UK price rises are likely to have been caused by high profits, falling wages and weak production over decades
The idea that cutting prices can stoke inflation is correct in theory, but rarely in practice.
Incremental and pragmatic, New Zealand’s fifth Wellbeing Budget tries to balance cost-of-living support with huge long-term investment challenges – all without frightening the inflation horses.
New mortgage products designed to help struggling first-time buyers hark back to the pre-2008 market and so should come with a warning.
With a surge in people seeking help amid a cost-of-living crisis, volunteer groups urgently need to rebuild their numbers to meet the demand for their services.
The cost of living crisis is making it even harder for women to leave their abusers.
Tuesday’s budget will forecast a growth in real wages of three quarters of a percentage point over the year to June 2024. This is an upgrade of half of a percentage point since the October budget
Businesses’ profit-seeking is an easy scapegoat for inflation. But a recent report from Treasury challenges this assumption.
The Albanese government had no intention of giving the Low and Middle Income Tax Offset a further lease of life. It just would have preferred that a pesky journalist hadn’t highlighted the fact
The deeper causes of inflation will make it very difficult to bring price rises down to more manageable levels.
From the late 1960s to the early 1980s, more unionised workforces from Europe to Aotearoa New Zealand fought hard to keep wages abreast with inflation. But it’s unlikely that could happen now.
In order for Canada to overcome the housing affordability crisis, individuals, families, the real estate industry and government all need to work together.
Raising rates to fight inflation involves a time lag so current efforts to bring down prices won’t start having an impact until the next election is approaching.
The Fed raised rates by a quarter-point – less aggressive than had been expected before the current banking crisis, but signaling inflation is still its focus.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, The Open University
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Honorary Research Fellow, City Political Economy Research Centre, City, University of London
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Professor of Economics, University of Waikato
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University
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Vice Dean and Associate Professor in Economics, University of East London
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Professor of Banking and Finance, Brunel University London
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer in Economics | Freelance Consultant, Sheffield Hallam University
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Director, Nottingham Institute of Education, Nottingham Trent University
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Paul Whiteley is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Professor of International Relations, Jean Monnet Professor of European Security, National University Odesa Law Academy
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Director of the Roy McKenzie Centre for the Study of Families and Children, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Professor of Politics, Massey University
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
