Amplifying the voices of people with lived experience of poverty is critical to finding policy solutions to reduce poverty and increase equality. Support for community participation in anti-poverty ...

Living standards are set to return to the depths experienced during the cost-of-living crisis by the end of this parliament, ...

“Today’s actions alone won’t be enough to fix the foundations for millions who struggle winter after winter in devastating hardship. The Chancellor is right that change must be felt. The people who ...

During the media rounds following her speech on 23 September, the Chancellor repeated a variant of one particular phrase over and again: "the focus of the budget in October will be to protect living ...

The Budget is the perfect opportunity for the Chancellor to prevent renters from being pushed deeper into poverty by permanently re-linking frozen housing benefits to private rents. Unless the ...

Martyn leads the Design and Production team at JRF, guiding the design, editorial, and production of digital content. He ensures all content is clear, consistent, and aligned with our mission. Since ...

New research is filling the evidence gap around why people are unpaid carers, and building understanding of their essential role alongside paid care services. These are the words of unpaid carers.

Understanding poverty now is important for policy. And when it comes to households’ living standards, no aggregate, reliable, real-time data is available. Until now. JRF has worked with Policy in ...

The latest webinar in our Talking about Homes series explores how to effectively frame numbers and statistics, and how to talk about the economy and our homes ...

Debt deductions: Amounts deducted to repay debts, mostly to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) but also to other government entities or third-party creditors. For example, ‘advance payment’ ...