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It’s time to tackle young people’s economic insecurity

15 Feb 2021 Fran Landreth Strong

It is clear the Covid-19 pandemic is impacting young people’s economic security, which is why we’re launching a new project to understand how economic insecurity affects those aged 12-24.

Replay

Work won’t love you back

28 Jan 2021

By exploding the ‘labour of love’ myth, Sarah Jaffe encourages us to demand what our work is actually worth and reimagines a future built on care rather than exploitation.

Replay

Bridges to the Future | Highlights

08 Oct 2020

At a time of global crisis, RSA Public Events hosted a series of online conversations with leading public thinkers to help us make sense of this moment; respond to its challenges with compassion and good judgement; and chart a path to a more resilient collective future.

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All clapped out? Key workers living through lockdown

31 Aug 2020

Key workers have kept the country going during the pandemic, but some are facing the worst of the economic turmoil created by it.

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Can good work solve the productivity puzzle? Collected essays

16 Jan 2020

Produced with Carnegie UK Trust, this essay collection explores in depth the relationship between productivity and work quality.

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The impact entrepreneur: building a new platform for economic security in work

10 Oct 2019

This report describes how a unique partnership between the RSA, Alt/Now and the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth and the Mastercard Impact Fund took on the challenge of exploring the action needed to combat economic insecurity in the future of work.

Animations

The Tyranny of Merit | Michael Sandel

24 May 2019

In this powerful new RSA Minimate, Michael Sandel confronts our age of stalling social mobility and entrenched inequality, and asks: what will it take to meet one of the biggest political challenges of our time?

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Realising Basic Income experiments in the UK

2 Aug 2018

Charlie Young explores how we can test a Universal Basic Income in the UK and other contexts.

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Pathways to Universal Basic Income: the case for a Universal Basic Opportunity Fund

16 Feb 2018

The UBOF represents a stepping stone – to be enacted now – towards Universal Basic Income and a better way of enabling citizens to live meaningful and contributory lives.

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Addressing economic insecurity

11 Jan 2018

Economic insecurity is a political, economic and societal challenge that public policy must understand and address.