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Geoff Tily

Want to help 1.6 million households in extreme debt? Raise their incomes

Geoff Tily
23 August, 2016

Austerity has fuelled a personal debt boom caused by low incomes and wages

George Osborne is in denial and Carney can’t do it alone – we need an action plan for the economy

Geoff Tily
1 July, 2016

As well as responding to the shock of Brexit, our economic policy must begin to repair the country

The length of this period of economic stagnation is almost unprecedented

Geoff Tily
18 February, 2016

The only era remotely comparable is the 1920s, covering the economic chaos at the end of the war and the disastrous return to the gold standard

Finally, employment growth and wage gains. But…

Geoff Tily
14 October, 2015

As risks to the global economy increase, these cuts are all the more dangerous

Today marks the first quarterly unemployment rise in four years

Geoff Tily
16 September, 2015

In terms of headcount, 1.8 million people are unemployed, still higher than ahead of the crisis

Recent labour market gains do not make up for years of losses

Geoff Tily
17 June, 2015

There is still a long way to go before we return to the pre-crisis world

ONS Economic Review: the irrelevance of labour market ‘tightness’ to the inflation outlook

Geoff Tily
3 June, 2015

The higher the implied ‘tightness’ the lower the inflation reading

Labour market: working people are still paying the price for austerity

Geoff Tily
17 April, 2015

Many have argued that employment gains somehow compensate for earnings losses, but this is false

The Budget changes nothing: the road from austerity has led only to more austerity

Geoff Tily
18 March, 2015

Cuts in the next parliament still to be far more severe than the last

More positives, but this remains far from a normal labour market

Geoff Tily
18 December, 2014

Positive labour market figures are to be understood in the context of the post-crisis period as a whole and must not detract from the long-standing pressures on working people.

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