Dear John,

On Wednesday lunchtime, will you join us for our second autumn webinar ‘Debt, Inequality and Covid-19; The Perfect Storm’? While Coronavirus has sent the world into turmoil, this pandemic hasn't just threatened lives, it’s exposed our highly dysfunctional economic system and fanned the flames of pre-existing inequalities in our economy.

The zoom webinar link and password will be sent via email the day before the event date.

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

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

This webinar will be chaired by our Head of Campaigns and Organising Rachel Oliver, and we’re delighted to welcome the following speakers to our panel:

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. Holding a PhD in quantitative social research from the Institute of Education, 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 the anti-poverty charity War on Want. Previously Head of International Climate at Friends of the Earth, he’s also served on the boards of Amnesty International UK, Friends of the Earth International and Global Justice Now. An activist against all bad things rooted in a BLM politics of race/class/gender, he tweets @chilledasad100

Please register for your free ticket now:

Hope to see you on Wednesday!

Hannah and the rest of the Positive Money team

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