Child poverty in Northern Ireland is still too high and people do not think the Executive is doing enough to address it. It ...

Poverty remains persistently high and the interim child poverty reduction targets have been missed. Government at all levels must step up to this challenge as people in Scotland feel let down by ...

We live in uncertain and unpredictable times. Yet, living in a place where there are local people, groups and organisations looking out for their community helps people better withstand life's shocks ...

It doesn’t have to be this way. JRF has begun to set out a range of policy options with the power to make a material difference to households’ living standards, reform our economic systems, and build ...

Source: JRF analysis of HBAI 2023/24 • Renters are positioned on the rent distribution controlling for bedroom size and region. We do not account for actual bedroom entitlement levels under Local ...

There are several challenges facing housebuilding which have led to this situation. Some of these are regulatory. For example, the new building safety regime is clearly having teething issues both due ...

The scale of low pay in the social care sector As of March 2024, around 40% of adult social care workers in England were being paid under the RLW (Skills for Care, 2024a), which at the time was £10.90 ...

Since 2013, this report has tracked the number of people in the UK living below the Minimum Income Standard (MIS), a public-defined benchmark for a dignified minimum standard of living. It examines ...

This literature review looks at the main patterns, themes and key issues relating to research on ethnicity and experiences in work in the UK.

Most people would expect Universal Credit to be based on a logical calculation, such as the cost of life’s essentials, but it never has been. This is leaving families going without food, utilities and ...

Disabled people face a higher risk of poverty due to extra costs, barriers to work and benefits that often fail to provide a sufficient income. Disabled people have persistently higher poverty rates ...