A New Beginning
The one thing we all need after the pandemic is a new beginning. Change is in the air, whether that be ideological, legislative, or deeply personal. The theme for this year’s Orwell Youth Prize is ‘A New Direction: Starting...
Rethinking Poverty is a hub for discussions on creating a good and just society
Here you will find blogs on how to #BuildBackBetter to achieve social and climate justice and create a society free from poverty and inequality. Our aim is to build the narrative and to help connect key people and promising approaches.
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What does Covid-19 mean for the inclusive growth agenda?
What’s the role of inclusive growth in recovering from crisis? It’s easy to see as a ‘nice-to-have’, but can be at the centre of helping us build back better. Fifteen months have passed since the publication of our report, Cultivating...
Rethinking Poverty: what needs to change?
We have the ideas for change It is now more than three years since Rethinking Poverty began to compile resources to support the development of a good society without poverty in the UK. Now, we believe that we have...
Green recovery: what is it and how do we get there?
The rhetoric across the political spectrum is that we need a green recovery. We are also seeing growing public outrage at increases in poverty. This was the background to a New Economics Foundation (NEF) briefing on 29 October with...
Use Covid recovery to get to net zero: the Citizens Assembly’s verdict
In the first of its kind in the UK, a National Citizens Assembly has deliberated and this week produced a detailed set of recommendations to get the UK on the path to net zero carbon emissions. 108 people representing...
Big reset needed for a resilient society
My favourite history book, The Sleepwalkers, tells the story of how the great powers drifted into the First World War without reason or regard to consequences. This is a common pattern, repeated many times since. For example, by blindly...
A caring economy: why invest in one now?
What is a caring economy? And why invest in it now? ‘Building a caring economy’ was the topic of a New Economics Foundation (NEF) briefing, hosted jointly with the Women’s Budget Group, on Thursday 8 October, to mark the publication...
Gross Domestic Wellbeing: a more relevant measure than GDP?
Carnegie UK Trust last December published their report Gross Domestic Wellbeing (GDWe)™ An alternative measure of social progress, which proposes GDWe as ‘a more holistic and relevant’ measure of social progress than Gross Domestic Product (GDP). ‘ measures neither...
We are proud to be a Good Help organisation
Rethinking Poverty are proud to be featured on Good Help’s newly launched website. The organisation define ‘Good Help’ as a method of support that helps ‘people to feel hopeful, identify their own purpose and confidently take action’, whereas ‘bad...
#BuildBackBetter coalition launched
The #BuildBackBetter coalition, which consists of 350 organisations from business, trade unions and civil society, was launched on 29 June. On its website it is described as ‘a platform for everyone who wants us to come out of this crisis...
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