Average earnings in Scotland are nearly £17,000 lower than they would have been if wages had grown as normal rather than flatlining following the 2008 financial crisis, new analysis has revealed.   New research published by the non-partisan think ...

The cost of everyday essentials has risen more than twice as fast as wages over the last Scottish Parliament, new analysis shows. New research published by the non-partisan think tank Future Economy Scotland finds that median earnings in Scotland ...

65,000 more Scottish children would be living in relative poverty today if Scotland’s poverty rate matched that of the UK’s, new analysis has revealed.  New research published by the non-partisan think tank Future Economy Scotland finds that: • ...

New research sets out tax reforms to raise over £2 billion a year and put Scotland’s stretched public finances on a sustainable path.   The Scottish Government risks harmful spending cuts unless it makes greater use of its tax powers in the next P...

Commenting on the Scottish Government’s Budget, Laurie Macfarlane, Co-Director of the think tank Future Economy Scotland, said: “Today’s Budget shows how devolution allows Scotland to make different choices on tax. While the UK Budget froze all i...

New report urges Scottish Government to embed Community Wealth Building across all policy areas to tackle deepening inequalities. Future Economy Scotland has today published a new report calling on the Scottish Government to mainstream Community W...

Commenting on the UK Government’s Budget, Laurie Macfarlane, Co-Director of the think tank Future Economy Scotland, said: “Rachel Reeves has correctly identified the core challenge: if we want strong, effective public services, tax revenues must...

Scotland has lost three times more fossil fuel jobs than it has created in clean energy over the past decade, and risks repeating the devastation of deindustrialisation without bolder action to deliver net zero.    A new report published by the th...

ScotWind leasing round placed offshore wind in hands of fossil fuel companies, asset managers and foreign governments, a new report has revealed. In 2022, the Scottish Government’s ‘ScotWind’ leasing round awarded rights to develop 20 new offshor...

Relying more heavily on private finance to fund nature restoration risks undermining Scotland’s net zero ambitions, new research has revealed.   The report, published by the think tank Future Economy Scotland, warns that relying more heavily on pr...