Progress on tackling child poverty in Northern Ireland has stalled and focusing on work alone will not shift the dial on ...

Scrapping two-child limit eases burden on families, but living standards still bleak Measures in the Budget, especially ...

New research shows that households feeling economically insecure is driving Labour’s loss of support, not immigration. JRF’s looking at how to improve living standards.

Addressing voters’ economic insecurity will help Labour gain and retain support across the political spectrum, whereas prioritising a particular stance on immigration risks alienating voters on the ...

New JRF figures but the same old story: the Government needs to address the cost of living crisis overwhelming millions of UK households to deliver growth, with fairness at its heart.

The Government needs a new approach to tackling energy affordability, a rising block tariff could be the answer.

Labour’s mission for economic growth commits them to ‘raising living standards in every region of the United Kingdom’. This is more than a welcome target, it is a necessity; both for the livelihoods ...

Very deep poverty is rising in Wales. More people using food banks, unable to heat their homes, or living in temporary accommodation, means the human cost and impact on public services is huge. There ...

This briefing sets out which children are at greatest risk of severe and acute poverty, and what a child poverty strategy must include to address it. Just ahead of the Labour Party taking office, the ...

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 ...

Responding to the Chancellor’s Spring Statement and the publication of the government’s impact assessment for their planned cuts to disability benefits, Paul Kissack, Chief Executive of the Joseph ...