The Guardian has noted this afternoon that: Businesses will have to pay at least a fifth of the wages of furloughed employees from August, it
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Climate, economic and tax justice are the same fight
Very shortly before the coronavirus pandemic really broke the Tax Justice Network published the first of a two-part series of articles on the relationship between
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We are facing the most almighty unemployment and only a Green New Deal can solve it
The FT reported yesterday that one in five UK employers plan to make redundancies in the next three months. The TUC is warning of 6
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Release the Carbon Army needed to transform our economy
I was pleased to see the Guardian reporting that: Labour is drawing up ambitious proposals to rescue the post-coronavirus economy with a radical green recovery plan
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Why we should democratise work
I was one of more than 3,000 signatories to this article in the Guardian and elsewhere this morning, originally published by Democratising Work: Working humans
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The Green New Deal will tackle both the social and climate crises that will follow on from coronavirus
My Green New Deal colleague, Colin Hines, had this letter in the Guardian today: Oxford University’s call for a green stimulus for the economy and Polly Toynbee’s
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Question of to the day: what to call an economics that embraces MMT?
Jo Wilson made this comment this comment on the blog this morning when discussing how to communicate economic ideas: Find a way to communicate what MMT actually
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First they ignore you…then Oxford University says you were right all along
The Guardian has reported that Oxford University has published a report supporting what is, in effect, exactly what the Green New Deal has been calling
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Question of the day: should we be issuing perpetual bonds to fund the Green New Deal?
George Soros recently made an interesting, and potentially controversial, call for the European Union to issue what are called perpetual bonds. Perpetual bonds are unusual
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