Voices Archives — Economy

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Published 4 years ago

Ten things you might not know about life as an immigrant

by Coleen Monroe-Knight in Issues
Published 4 years ago

We asked Oxford Street shoppers if consumerism is like a religion

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 4 years ago

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

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 4 years ago

Why do people think Jews are so successful?

by Daniel Lapedus in Voices
Published 4 years ago

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

by Najma Ali in Issues
Published 4 years ago

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

by Morven Oliver in Issues
Published 4 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 5 years ago

We asked Southern Rail drivers why they’re on strike

by Economy Team in Issues
Published 5 years ago

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

by Saman Sadeghi Afgeh in Voices
Published 5 years ago

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

by Sara Zayto in Voices
Published 5 years ago

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

by Ally Clifton in Voices
Published 5 years ago

What’s the most valuable thing you own?

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 5 years ago

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

by Petros Poulopoulos in Voices
Published 5 years ago

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

by Flavia Garcia in News
Published 5 years ago

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

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 5 years ago

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

by Dalia Gebrial in Issues
Published 5 years ago

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

by Tyler August in Issues
Published 5 years ago

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

by Adrian Hyyrylainen-Trett in Issues
Published 5 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 5 years ago

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

by Wen-Yu Weng in News
Published 5 years ago

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

by Saman Sadeghi Afgeh in Entertainment
Published 5 years ago

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

by Petros Poulopoulos in Voices
Published 5 years ago

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

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 5 years ago

Economy Asks: Vegans vs Carnivores

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 5 years ago

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

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 5 years ago

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

by Daniel Lapedus in Issues
Published 5 years ago

Economy Asks: should food ever be free?

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 5 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 5 years ago

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

by Elena Michael in Issues
Published 5 years ago

Economy Asks: Chicago

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 5 years ago

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

by Bob Mills in Voices
Published 5 years ago

Economy Asks: Southbank Skaters

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 5 years ago

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

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 5 years ago

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

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 5 years ago

My town, Bienne: Steep mountains, steeper living

by Ernie Stairs in Voices
Published 5 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 5 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 5 years ago

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

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 years ago

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

by Morven Oliver in News
Published 5 years ago

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

by Economy Team in News
Published 5 years ago

Economy Asks: Hawaii

by Economy Team in Voices
Published 5 years ago

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

by Joe Earle in Issues
Published 5 years ago

Kampala: The city as a marketplace

by Camilla Kuckartz in Voices
Published 5 years ago

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

by Joe Earle in News
Published 5 years ago

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

by Ha-Joon Chang in Issues
Published 5 years ago

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

by Joe Earle in Issues
Published 5 years ago

My town, Detroit: from bankruptcy to boomtown?

by Sara Zayto in Voices
Published 5 years ago

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

by Priscilla Santoli in Voices
Published 5 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 5 years ago

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

by John Runnels in Voices
Published 5 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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