Debt, Inequality and Covid-19: The Perfect Storm webinar
Channel: Positive Money
Date: 2020-09-23

The second event in our autumn series of webinars.
Speakers:
Shreya Nanda is an economist at the Institute for Public Policy Research's Centre for Economic Justice. Prior to this she worked for the Government Economic Service, the Africa All-Party Parliamentary Group and the World Health Organisation. Her recent work highlights the unequal impact of the government's response to Covid-19. She tweets @shreyagnanda

Dr Natasha Codiroli is a quantitative researcher at Advance HE. Holding a PhD in quantitative social research from UCL, she’s worked as an analyst in the civil service and led on the recent report ‘Crisis of support for BAME women’ for The Women’s Budget Group, The Fawcett Society, Queen Mary University of London and the LSE

Asad Rehman is Executive Director of War on Want. Asad has been at the forefront of the climate justice movement both in the UK and globally helping to reframe climate as an issue of racialised capitalism, economic and social injustice and is co-convenor of the Global Green New Deal Project to connect the climate crisis, neoliberal inequality, Covid and historical exploitation of the global South.

Event description:
Coronavirus has sent the world into turmoil. But this pandemic isn’t just threatening lives, it’s exposing our highly dysfunctional economic system and fanning the flames of pre-existing inequality, resulting in ever-deepening crises of poverty, job insecurity, as well as racial and gender disparities.

While UK public debt hit a record £2 trillion amid its Covid-19 relief effort, the government’s response has left the poorest in our society to shoulder most economic risk, with almost half of the furlough scheme spent on rent and debt repayments, amounting to an implicit bail-out of landlords and banks.

With Covid-19, we may all be in the same storm, but we’re in very different boats.

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