The Pathways to Work green paper proposals will impact young people already experiencing high levels of hardship, undermining the policy intent that underpins the Youth Guarantee. The Get Britain ...

Although there has been a step change in the participation of women in the UK labour market, gender pay inequality remains, starting at the point that women become mothers. Many families in the UK ...

Child poverty in Scotland is too high, with 1 in 4 children in relative poverty after housing costs (AHC). In 2016, the Scottish Parliament unanimously agreed to set the Child Poverty Reduction ...

More generous Statutory Paternity Leave would deliver on both household financial security and economic growth.

Average couple with two primary-aged children in very deep poverty are over £1,000 a month away from 'the poverty line' A combination of lack of work, high housing costs and insufficient social ...

tightening eligibility for Personal Independence Payments (PIP) scrapping the Work Capability Assessment and making PIP the gateway to receiving the Universal Credit (UC) health element halving the ...

Not enough food. Can’t heat the house. No bed. Can’t pay the rent. Can’t afford the bus fare to go into town. Can’t afford to have a friend over for tea. Living in fear of the washing machine or ...

One of the greatest challenges we face is the way we’ve come to see our current economic and social models as fixed, even as they are failing us and the planet. We’re living through times of hardship ...

Child poverty remains significantly higher than poverty rates for both working-age and pension-age adults, making it a critical issue to address in tackling poverty overall. Despite the UK being one ...

Relative and absolute poverty can be presented before and after housing costs (these include rent or mortgage interest, buildings insurance and water rates) and are presented after direct taxes and ...

JRF's work to be an anti-racist organisation and our insights on structural racism in housing, work and health, as well as the heightened risk of poverty experienced by many ethnic minority groups.

While public support doesn’t always translate into government policy, greater support is certainly more likely to result in sustained and increased action by all levels of government. Public attitudes ...