Analysis and action on living standards
Recently the UK has faced tough times in trade, juggling twin shocks of Brexit and Covid. While service exports have stayed strong, goods trade has struggled. With a possible further disruption to goods trade around the corner in the form of universal Trump tariffs, this briefing asks what our economic experience of the first two shocks might teach us about how to handle the next.
Rachel Reeves has fired the starting gun on next Spring’s Spending Review with reports suggesting she will to turn to financiers for line-by-line scrutiny of public expenditure. But the fiscal and broader economic environment is laced with traps for a government planning a strategically crucial Spending Review. This piece looks at some of those traps and considers how the Chancellor can achieve her crucial aim of delivering broad-based economic growth.
The Resolution Foundation is an independent think-tank focused on improving living standards for those on low-to-middle incomes. We work across a wide range of economic and social policy areas, combining our core purpose with a commitment to analytical rigour.
This report serves as the Resolution Foundation’s consultation response to the UK Government’s Green Paper Invest 2035: The UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy, outlining a 10-year plan for fostering economic growth building on eight key sectors.
The turbulent 2020s have had profound implications for household wealth in Britain. This recent turbulence came on the back of decades of rising wealth but relatively stable wealth inequality in Britain. This report discusses what lies behind this puzzling stability, which is key to understanding the reality of wealth inequality in Britain today and how it might evolve in future.
The Resolution Foundation calculates the real Living Wage – a voluntary hourly pay rate that is based on what families need to get by. The current national rate is:
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