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Standard of Living

In the News Teaching Activity – What key economic challenges will a new PM face? (June 2026)

29th June 2026
How is the Middle East conflict affecting UK livings standards? (Apr 2026)

20th April 2026
In the News Teaching Activity – Why do people feel dissatisfied with life in the UK? (Mar 2026)

16th March 2026
In the News Teaching Activity – Is the UK economy becoming more productive? (Feb 2026)

19th February 2026
In the News Teaching Activity – Can the Budget measures help to boost UK living standards? (Dec 2025)

1st December 2025
In the News Teaching Activity – can the GDP measures be adjusted to make them more accurate? (Mar 2025)

17th March 2025
Richard Easterlin (1926-2024): A Legacy in Economic Thought

17th December 2024
In the News Teaching Activity – how could the US election outcome affect living standards in the UK? (Nov 2024)

18th November 2024
In the News Teaching Activity – UK economy returns to growth (Oct 2024)

21st October 2024
In the News Teaching Activity – as the General Elections looms, what are the key economic arguments likely to be? (June 2024)

6th June 2024
In the News Teaching Activity – the UK economic trends 2010-24, success or failure? (June 2024)

10th June 2024
In the News Teaching Activity – Will the Bank of England cut base rates this summer? (May 2024)

16th May 2024
In the News Teaching Activity – how can the UK’s lacklustre productivity growth be improved? (Mar 2024)

18th March 2024
In the News Teaching Activity – the UK’s economy slips into recession (Feb 2024)

22nd February 2024
Standard of Living - Limitations of GDP as a measure of Wellbeing

Topic Videos
Hysteresis - Generation Y bear the scars of the Global Financial Crisis

14th November 2023
2.1.1 Living Standards and Economic Wellbeing (Edexcel A-Level Economics Teaching PowerPoint)

Teaching PowerPoints
4.2.1.4 Uses of National Income Data (AQA A-Level Economics Teaching PowerPoint)

Teaching PowerPoints
UK Economy - Inflation Falls to Below 8%

19th July 2023
How to make poor areas richer

20th January 2023
A crisis for Labour as real wages drop and working poverty climbs

17th January 2023
Inflation Reaches 11% - A Look Inside Britain's Cost of Living Crisis

16th November 2022
Inflation reaches 10.1% - will the Triple Lock for pensions be maintained?

19th October 2022
Stagnation Nation - In Work Poverty, Inequality and Fragility in the face of Economic Shocks

13th July 2022
Minimum Wage and Living Wage

Topic Videos
Well-being: Is there really a mid-life crisis?

25th July 2016
The collapse in living standards in Greece

1st September 2016
Will there be a 'watering down' of the National Living Wage?

7th September 2016
Beyond GDP? Welfare across Countries and Time

7th September 2016
Will Chinese living standards ever surpass those in the USA?

7th February 2017
Should rich pensioners be taxed more heavily?

16th February 2017
National Income and the Standard of Living - Revision Presentation

Teaching PowerPoints
UK Economy in 2015 - Exam Revision Webinar

Topic Videos
Living Standards and Human Development Index

Topic Videos
Measuring the Standard of Living

Topic Videos
What is Economic Well-Being?

Topic Videos
10 Flaws in GDP as a measure of Living Standards

Topic Videos
6 Strategies to Improve Living Standards

Topic Videos
National Happiness and GDP limitations

24th January 2021
Measuring the Standard of Living

Study Notes
Intergenerational equity - older voters are richer than ever

9th December 2019
Living Standards in the UK (2019 Update)

Topic Videos
Are we still worse off than in 2008?

18th September 2019
Economic Well-Being

Study Notes
20 Years of the UK National Minimum Wage

Study Notes
EdExcel Theme 3 Micro Knowledge Book - Labour Markets

Quizzes & Activities
Technology has improved living standards by more than we think

26th October 2018
Benefits and Costs of Economic Growth

Study Notes
JRF launches new Minimum Income Standard

3rd July 2018
Terms of Trade

Study Notes
Absolute and Relative Poverty

Topic Videos
What is Economic Growth?

Study Notes
Living Standards - Material and social deprivation in the EU in 2016

12th December 2017
UK House Prices and Living Standards - "A-maze-balls" activity

7th November 2017
Are living standards in the UK getting worse?

23rd October 2017
How Junk Food is Transforming Brazil

21st September 2017
Measuring the Standard of Living (Essay Technique Video)

Exam Support
The Digital Economy and Problems in Measuring GDP

12th April 2016
We are much better off than the official statistics say

16th March 2016
Digitally Disrupted GDP

9th March 2016
Why have wages stagnated in many developed countries

9th March 2016
The End of the Chinese Economic Miracle

9th March 2016
Highest and Lowest Paid Cities in the UK

23rd February 2016
The Puzzle of Growth - Rich and Poor Countries

23rd February 2016
Measuring a minimum income standard

29th July 2014
Standard of living in the European Union

17th December 2014
Economic pain continues despite the recovery

24th December 2014
“Ricardo, Ricardo, that wonderful guy” - innovation, job losses and living standards

1st February 2015
Real wages and living standards in the UK - recent evidence

6th April 2015
Stiglitz on Falling Living Standards in the UK

24th May 2015
Falling living standards for jobseekers

8th September 2015
China's huge changes

21st September 2015
In the long run has globalisation made everyone better off?

15th October 2015
Cities with Highest and Lowest Taxi Fares

16th October 2015