Analysis and action on living standards
How and why to make the UK economy more dynamic
Losing your job in Britain is a very risky business. Low levels of out-of-work benefits are rarely an adequate safety net for those who experience job loss, and workers in the UK who move out of work are at greater risk of experiencing a large income loss than those in most other OECD countries. In this report, we therefore propose a new and modernised system of unemployment insurance for the UK
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, combining our core purpose with a commitment to analytical rigour.
After the success of the Commonwealth games in 2022, Birmingham is now in the news for the wrong reasons. Financial difficulties facing the City Council culminated in a formal declaration on 5 September 2023 that Britain’s largest local authority was, in effect, bankrupt. In this report, alongside a a twin paper on Greater Manchester, we provide grounded answers to the difficult question of what it would take to achieve a higher-productivity future for these two great, but different, cities.
The productivity of the UK's largest cities lags behind the UK average, bucking the global trend for bigger urban areas to be more productive. This report provides grounded answers to the difficult question of what it would take to achieve a higher-productivity future for Greater Manchester,
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:
Resolution Ventures exists to back innovative start-ups seeking to change the world of work for the better and early-stage ventures seeking to improve the prospects of low-to-middle income Britain.
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