“Key workers’ hourly wages are 8% lower on average than other employees” Institute for Fiscal Studies The response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has underlined the critical role of the UK’s key workers, many of whom are in relatively low-paid sectors such as food or social care. Overall, a third of key worker employees […]
By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor TRUMP HAS COVID-19! And a predictable outpouring of mainstream media bile ensues. If you’re tired of media hysteria and want to know what’s actually being done in Washington, read on… Free Market advocates and organizations are steadfastly ignoring the sensational and doing actual work. Here’s this week’s news […]
Any financial system reform for the European Union that involves creation of a transfer union, putting Europe’s prudent countries on the hook for profligate counterparts, faces a few rather large obstacles in Central and Eastern Europe. That’s according to the new analysis from the Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in […]