Setting a new path to greater, shared prosperity

Presentation at Resolution Foundation event on how cities in the North East can help to end economic stagnation

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•Raise
investment

15. Recent employment gains have gone to the bottom end of the
income distribution - we need to build on this

Change in working-age employment rate, by after housing cost income decile: UK, 2009-10 to 2019-20
+12 ppts

・ Righttoa
+10 ppts contract
reflecting
48 ppts actual hours
・ Increase sick
+6 ppts pay to 65% of
usual earnings
+4 ppts and extend to
lowest earners
pets ・ Increase
working-age
benefits in line
with earnings
-2ppts 上

Poorer + Netequivalised household income decile, after housing costs + Richer

Source: Analysis of DWP, Households Below Average Income and Family Resources Survey. ag