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Mental health of young people is deteriorating, and shows up in employment data. More action is needed
Multinationals in particular hiked prices far above rise in costs to deliver an outsize impact on cost of living crisis, report concludes
Central banks are keen to blame the surge in inflation on anyone but central banks
Editorial: The true costs of Covid – at both a personal and social level – are becoming clearer. What happened to building back better?
The economy has been weaker than previously estimated for much of this year, official figures show.
HMRC moved 1,350 compliance staff due to Covid, National Audit Office says, and losses are expected to grow
Production was main contributor to July GDP growth, but legal activities fell by 7.3% during the month
As bars, pubs and restaurants prepare to welcome customers back indoors, some will not reopen at all.
The UK economy shrank by 1.5% in the first quarter of 2021, as the country experienced a lengthy winter lockdown.
Research suggests the number of shop vacancies has risen again, with the North of England worse hit.
Sales of fiction, non-fiction and audio books all jumped last year, the industry body says.
Those with no sick pay and fewer rights, such as many care workers and delivery drivers, at higher risk
Staff are going all out to welcome customers back as Covid lockdown eases in England and Wales
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‘Deep-scarring effects’: Living standards for hardest hit won’t return to pre-pandemic levels until 2027, report predicts
Revised official figures reveal that the UK grew at the end of 2021 rather than shrinking.
Exclusive: Sir David Green suggests ‘prudence was thrown out the window’ as UK lost billions of pounds in pandemic business support
ONS says economy shrank by 0.3% in third quarter, with UK only G7 country whose GDP is still lower than before pandemic
‘Sudden explosion of billionaire wealth’ at the expense of the rest of society is ‘grossly unjust’, says new report
Unions call for increase in minimum wage and benefits to offset array of rising costs
Almost half of sum was earmarked for business support, including furlough scheme and bounce-back loans
Vital international scientific work, including studies into how viruses spread, is being jeopardised by short-sighted cuts, says Prof Fiona Tomley
Post-pandemic shifts in travel habits could undermine the logic behind many infrastructure projects.
Some venues may have to limit their opening hours after more than one in ten hospitality workers left the sector.
There were 109,000 more jobless older workers between December and February than a year ago, a report says.
Shops are ready with greeters and special offers to make in-person shopping an ‘experience’
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This Larry Elliott article highlights the external costs of the pandemic, arguing that these weren't factored in to assessments of the costs of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.
He focuses in particular on the effects of the pandemic on the young, linking it to a rise in mental health problems and having an adverse effect on labour supply, with adverse macroeconomic consequences.