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 ...

This new analysis shows the level of proposed cuts for some example families, and how multiple cuts interact with one other. There are some welcome changes with people in receipt of benefits having a ...

Discussion ahead of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) statement on 26 March has focused on whether the Chancellor will meet her fiscal rule, and the extent to which near unprecedented cuts ...

This report, from the Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP), is the 12th in a series monitoring the number of people living beneath the Minimum Income Standard in the UK. It focuses on 3 groups ...

Entry rates into very deep poverty are 3 times higher in Bangladeshi, Black African and Pakistani households than in white households. For the past decade, an average of around 4% of people not in ...

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 ...

More than 1 in 5 Scots are currently living in poverty, struggling to survive on incomes that fall below what they need. This includes 1in every 4 children in Scotland. Despite the severity of the ...

Building connections, through convening organisations with both tech and social/environmental missions, is seen as beneficial. Such collaborations could set agendas outside the commercial influence of ...

People going without essentials piles pressure on primary schools and GP surgeries, diverting resources and adding to workloads. We need an urgent action plan for hardship.

Poverty stigma exacerbates shamefully high rates of poverty in the UK. It can affect health as much as trying to survive on a low income. How do we combat it?

This report looks at 3 scenarios where buying private homes for social ownership can play a role in shaping the housing market and growing new, more equitable housing models.