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A well-trained workforce is essential to the economy, but a shortage of alternatives to university means Britain's young people are falling behind. Lord Richard Layard talks about a fundamental injustice in Britain's edu... Read more...
20 August 2024
Keir Starmer says the party ‘always invests in public services’ but declines to rule out real-terms reductions in spending ... Read more...
04 December 2023
Radical shift in policy is needed to close gap with peer countries, says research by two think-tanks. ... Read more...
Britain’s stagnant economy has cost workers more than £10,000 a year in lost wages, according to a think tank that warned the UK will remain stuck in a low growth trap without radical reform. The Resolution F... Read more...
Poor productivity growth has resulted in the UK becoming the most unequal country among rich European societies, according to a report produced by the Resolution Foundation, the Nuffield Foundation and the Centre for Eco... Read more...
Trade has been hit by Brexit, while the number in poverty has risen sharply in a country ill-prepared for the future. A new report, "Ending Stagnation", pieced together from original research by the Resolution Foundation... Read more...
The Economy 2030 Inquiry has been examining the scale and impact of recent economic change in the UK, and will set out a new economy strategy to tackle the twin challenges of low growth and high inequality in its final r... Read more...
20 November 2023
The Economy 2030 Inquiry examines the scale and impact of economic change that the UK is living through in the 2020s, and will set out a plan for successfully navigating this change. For the past two years, resear... Read more...
19 May 2023
The Economy 2030 Inquiry is examining the scale and impact of economic change that the UK is living through in the 2020s, and will set out a plan for successfully navigating it. For the past 18 months, researchers from ... Read more...
30 November 2022
Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng don’t seem to know how to go about it. Here are a few starting points. ... Read more...
07 October 2022
High energy prices are causing problems, as are the consequences of the Covid pandemic and the effects of Brexit. But research by the Resolution Foundation and the Center for Economic Performance suggests the causes of t... Read more...
15 July 2022
Brexit has damaged Britain's competitiveness, will reduce productivity and leave the average worker poorer than they otherwise would have been, according to a new study from the Resolution Foundation and LSE's Centre for... Read more...
22 June 2022
Britain's cost of living crisis is being made worse by Brexit dragging down the country's growth potential and costing workers hundreds of pounds a year in lost pay, say researchers. The Resolution Foundation thinktank a... Read more...
Britain’s departure from the EU has damaged its competitiveness and will cut productivity and wages over the next ten years. Instead of the expected effect of narrowly reducing exports to the EU, Brexit has “... Read more...
The Economy 2030 Inquiry is examining the scale and impact of economic change that the UK is living through in the 2020s, and will set out a plan for successfully navigating it. For the past year, researchers from the R... Read more...
30 May 2022
The pace of change in the UK jobs market has slowed to its lowest level in decades and, even the disruption of the pandemic, has been a far cry from the upheaval of the 1980s, according to research by the Resolution Foun... Read more...
06 January 2022
Moving to a new employer offers a greater salary increase than staying put - and workers who resign to take up work in booming sectors stand to gain even more, according to research from the Resolution Foundation think t... Read more...
Joint research from the Centre for Economic Performance and the Resolution Foundation suggests that financial officers expect the amount of workers moving from shrinking to growing companies will spe... Read more...
20 November 2021
It is six months since the launch of The Economy 2030 inquiry – a two-year project that will examine the scale and impact of economic change that the UK is living through in the 2020s, and set out a plan... Read more...
19 November 2021
Findings from the Resolution Foundation and the Centre for Economic Performance challenge the government’s view that levelling up poorly performing companies or poorer regions will raise productivit... Read more...
15 November 2021
The Resolution Foundation and Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics launch an important inquiry, analysing how the country must grapple with recovery from Covid-19, the af... Read more...
31 May 2021
The UK is facing a ‘decisive decade’ of change as five seismic economic shifts – the Covid aftermath, Brexit, the Net Zero transition, an older population and rapid technological change - com... Read more...
18 May 2021