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A shorter working week is in reach
Working time is set to become one of the major battlegrounds of our generation. And unions and businesses are backing the movement, writes Alice Martin. Read more

You can see highlights of our work for a shorter working week here.

Weekly Economics Podcast: Is the economy damaging our mental health?
Discussions of mental health often revolve around the importance of removing any stigma from mental illness, or of underfunded NHS services. But is the economy itself to blame? Ayeisha Thomas-Smith talks to Hana Riaz, who is researching the impact of gentrification on mental health, NEF organiser Becki Winson, and our wellbeing researcher Annie Quick. Listen

Weekly Economics Podcast: Does economics need a rethink?
In case you missed last week’s episode: we ask Rethinking Economics’ Maeve Cohen, Economy’s Joe Earle and Polly Trenow of the Women’s Budget Group what’s wrong with the way we teach, talk and think about economics? Listen

“Historically a haven for affordable workspace”
Leni Jones from Guardians of the Arches spoke to BBC Breakfast about the takeover of the railway arches by Telereal Trillium. The programme cited NEF research about the value of the arches.

“The wealthiest should be paying more tax, not less.”
NEF Head of Economics Alfie Stirling argues for higher top tax rates, in the CityAM Debate.

“Machines should liberate us from work, not subject us to ever-increasing inequality.”
NEF’s Aidan Harper – joint author of a new report on working time from Autonomy and the 4 Day Week Campaign – argued that the the proceeds of automation should be shared amongst us, in Gizmodo.

“Universal Credit is not delivering on the work incentives that it set out to do”
Alfie Stirling dismantles what’s wrong with Universal Credit, on Sky News.

“There is little incentive to limit discarding”
Griffin Carpenter spoke to The Guardian about a lack of compliance with the EU ban on discarding fish.

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