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Friday I had a good job, Monday I’ve not got a job. Former colleagues still say it felt like a bereavement.

by Katy Walker in Voices
Published 1 week ago

We never got our last pay, we had to claim that from the government but that didn’t include holiday pay and other things.

by Ross Topping in Voices
Published 1 week ago

The BHS auditors turned a blind eye to the things that were going on. That almost cost workers their pension.

by Lin Macmillan in Voices
Published 3 years ago

We met a drug dealer. He told us about his pension plan.

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 5 years ago

“For me, the whole process has been unclear”

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 5 years ago

Young people have a lot to say about Brexit

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 5 years ago

Brexitannia could teach us all a little something about how to talk politics differently

by Victoria Waldersee in Voices
Published 5 years ago

I joined the #wastefree movement for a week to find out how much going plastic free actually costs

by Ellie Clayton in Issues
Published 5 years ago

Cleaners are still feeling the effects of the financial crisis

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 5 years ago

Are investment bankers evil, or just misunderstood?

by Victoria Waldersee in Voices
Published 5 years ago

Could monkeys run the financial system better than us?

by Victoria Waldersee in Voices
Published 5 years ago

The women putting female empowerment on the union agenda

by Hannah Loosley in Issues
Published 5 years ago

We spoke to the guy who’s trying to bring unions into the 21st century

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 5 years ago

Working independently is harder than it should be. We’re doing something about it

by Asher Dresner in Issues
Published 5 years ago

Would you pay more for McDonald’s if it meant staff were paid better?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 5 years ago

One family’s story shows how much has changed in East London’s housing market

by Victoria Waldersee in Voices
Published 5 years ago

Four creative ways people are avoiding high house prices

by Ellie Clayton in Issues
Published 5 years ago

What’s your experience of renting in London?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 5 years ago

“I thought spending more money would fix things. It didn’t”

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 5 years ago

Have you ever been ripped off by hidden bank charges?

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 5 years ago

I’m a nurse. This is how I feel about the public sector pay cap

by Anonymous in Issues
Published 5 years ago

We asked young people about the biggest change their country’s economy is facing

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 5 years ago

Only 16% of the top earning celebrities are women

by Ellie Clayton in Entertainment
Published 5 years ago

Why my bike was the best investment I ever made

by Emily Franklin in Voices
Published 5 years ago

There’s a problem with Ivanka Trump’s feminism

by Andrea Maltman in Voices
Published 5 years ago

I’ve lived all over the world. This housing crisis is everywhere

by Coleen Monroe-Knight in Issues
Published 5 years ago

Ten things you might not know about life as an immigrant

by Coleen Monroe-Knight in Issues
Published 5 years ago

We asked Oxford Street shoppers if consumerism is like a religion

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 5 years ago

A priest, an imam, and a rabbi explain the economics of their religion to us

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 5 years ago

Why do people think Jews are so successful?

by Daniel Lapedus in Voices
Published 5 years ago

What it’s like to work in a Western office as a Muslim

by Najma Ali in Issues
Published 5 years ago

We asked pro- and anti-Trump Christians what their faith says about his ideas

by Morven Oliver in Issues
Published 5 years ago

We asked an ‘economics of religion’ professor to explain what her subject actually means

by Victoria Waldersee in Voices
Published 5 years ago

We asked EU nationals in the UK about their lives after Brexit

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 5 years ago

Farewell Washington! Bye bye London! Are we scrapping capital cities?

by J.Christopher Proctor in News
Published 5 years ago

Meet the women making porn, for women

by Ellie Clayton in Issues
Published 5 years ago

Meet the Taiwanese woman rebuilding her village with the power of DIY

by Sofia Quaglia in Voices
Published 5 years ago

This Girl Can? Women react to #femvertising empowerment ads

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 5 years ago

There was a conference about the future of industry in the north of England. So where were all the women?

by Kate Fox in Issues
Published 5 years ago

The truth about being a single mum

by Katy Brent in Issues
Published 5 years ago

We need to stop telling women they’re bad with money

by Daisy Buchanan in Issues
Published 5 years ago

Nicaragua has found a new way to protect sex workers

by Samantha Eyler in Issues
Published 5 years ago

Not investing into female engineers would be a big economic mistake

by Sarah Peers in Voices
Published 5 years ago

I’m a model. Here’s how I feel about turning my body into a business

by Elsa Brisinger in Voices
Published 5 years ago

IBM’s new super-smart computer makes me think a robot tax is a good idea

by Nina Weber in Issues
Published 5 years ago

Twelve people got fired for not showing up for work on the Day Without Immigrants and people are really divided

by Kimberly Poff in Issues
Published 5 years ago

Romanian anti-corruption protests might not unseat the government, but they’re still full of hope

by Brindusa Ioana Nastasa in Issues
Published 5 years ago

We asked millennials around the world how they feel about marriage

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 5 years ago

‘Would you break up for ten thousand pounds?’

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 6 years ago

We asked Southern Rail drivers why they’re on strike

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 6 years ago

We asked Santa Claus whether he likes his job. Here’s what he said

by Saman Sadeghi Afgeh in Voices
Published 6 years ago

We asked 5th Avenue Christmas shoppers whether gifts are worth the hassle

by Sara Zayto in Voices
Published 6 years ago

Why do we love looking at really, really old stuff so much?

by Ally Clifton in Voices
Published 6 years ago

What’s the most valuable thing you own?

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 6 years ago

We asked people if they would rather have more money, or more stuff

by Petros Poulopoulos in Voices
Published 6 years ago

Brazil has zipped up the government wallet for twenty years. Here’s why

by Flavia Garcia in News
Published 6 years ago

This artist makes sculptures out of other people’s rubbish. We asked her about it

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 6 years ago

The #NoDAPL victory proves people power really does get stuff done

by Dalia Gebrial in Issues
Published 6 years ago

Most Cuban Americans celebrated the death of Castro…but I wasn’t one of them

by Tyler August in Issues
Published 6 years ago

It’s World AIDS Day – here’s the cost of the trauma and the stigma

by Adrian Hyyrylainen-Trett in Issues
Published 6 years ago

“The best things in life are free” my ass. Here’s how much it costs to have sex in the UK

by Jasmine Andersson in Voices
Published 6 years ago

Here’s why the death of the King of Thailand is such a big deal

by Wen-Yu Weng in News
Published 6 years ago

What Bob Dylan taught me about the working man’s blues

by Saman Sadeghi Afgeh in Entertainment
Published 6 years ago

We asked Athenians whether they think Greece’s economy is recovering. Here’s what they said

by Petros Poulopoulos in Voices
Published 6 years ago

Economy Asks: What’s beer got to do with economics?

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 6 years ago

Economy Asks: Vegans vs Carnivores

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 6 years ago

Take a look at what these kids had to tell us about food

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 6 years ago

Forty thousand ‘ugly’ lemons and the problem of food waste

by Daniel Lapedus in Issues
Published 6 years ago

Economy Asks: should food ever be free?

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 6 years ago

Meet the vegetarian café that’s fighting the vicious spiral of poor diet, poverty and mental illness

by Bernadette Hyland in Issues
Published 6 years ago

A world of their own: Life inside the Calais and Idomeni refugee camps

by Elena Michael in Issues
Published 6 years ago

Economy Asks: Chicago

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 6 years ago

How football’s obsession with money divides the game into the haves and the have-nots

by Bob Mills in Voices
Published 6 years ago

Economy Asks: Southbank Skaters

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 6 years ago

Isaac Mullins: why the real-life Billy Elliot wants to take yoga into prisons

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 6 years ago

What do people really think of the Olympic Park four years after the London Games?

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 6 years ago

My town, Bienne: Steep mountains, steeper living

by Ernie Stairs in Voices
Published 6 years ago

Dear David Davis, I’ve got a whole lot of unanswered questions about Brexit I’d like to ask please…

by Ben Irvine in News
Published 6 years ago

Glitter, disco ball, drugs: I decided to keep a record of everything I spent at Glastonbury this year. Here’s how it added up

by Anonymous in Entertainment
Published 6 years ago

Dear Theresa May, “making the country work for everyone” means making economics work for everyone

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 6 years ago

I didn’t realize I lived in the middle of the ‘rust belt’, so I decided to find out exactly what it means

by Sara Zayto in Voices
Published 6 years ago

They asked us what the economy is. We didn’t have a clue… until we realised it was us

by Think Forward in Voices
Published 6 years ago

I decided to get rid of all my stuff and learned to live more with much less

by Regina Wong in Voices
Published 6 years ago

A chance encounter showed me that my Brexit vote matters. So does yours

by Morven Oliver in News
Published 6 years ago

Economy Asks: Southend-on-Sea – How has the ‘Brexit’ debate made you feel?

by Economy Team in News
Published 6 years ago

Economy Asks: Hawaii

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 6 years ago

Why do so many men in the financial sector commit suicide?

by Joe Earle in Issues
Published 6 years ago

Kampala: The city as a marketplace

by Camilla Kuckartz in Voices
Published 6 years ago

To EU, or not to EU, that is the question…

by Joe Earle in News
Published 6 years ago

Ha-Joon Chang on why we all need to learn (some) economics

by Ha-Joon Chang in Issues
Published 6 years ago

Talking about mental health is embarrassing, expensive, and difficult. This has got to change

by Joe Earle in Issues
Published 6 years ago

My town, Detroit: from bankruptcy to boomtown?

by Sara Zayto in Voices
Published 6 years ago

My town, LA: working like a demon in the City of Angels

by Priscilla Santoli in Voices
Published 6 years ago

We spoke to Danny Dorling about inequality, the Panama Papers, and the power of a good map

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 6 years ago

My town, Denver: cranes, costumes, craft beer and cannabis

by John Runnels in Voices
Published 6 years ago

We asked London who runs the world’s economy. Surely not Donald Trump?

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 6 years ago

“When you’re fifty, go wherever you like!” A poem on growth

by Yuan Yang in Voices
Published 6 years ago

Why benefit cuts for disabled people will only damage the UK economy

by Sharon Brennan in Issues
Published 6 years ago

Economy Asks: Detroit

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 6 years ago

“I’d feel like I could talk more about economics if…”

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 6 years ago

Talking to my Granny taught me more about economics than my degree

by Charlie McCurdy in Voices
Published 6 years ago

Economy Asks: London

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 6 years ago

We really, really need to talk about money

by Dora Meade in Issues
Published 6 years ago

Getting a bank account can be tricky when you’re homeless, so here’s how I did it

by DM Traylor in Issues
Published 6 years ago

My journey from Post Office apprentice to UK Treasury economist

by Andy Ross in Voices

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