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

Back in September, James Plunkett and I launched The Centre for the Edge, a new collaboration between JRF and Kinship Works. We are interested in how public institutions can renew themselves in a ...

We can change our tax system to support our economy, invest in our families, and raise living standards. This comment explains how. The UK tax system is poorly designed, but a new CenTax paper ...

More than one in three families in the UK now have incomes below the Minimum Income Standard (MIS), a benchmark based on what the public agrees a household needs as a minimum to live on. Their incomes ...

Tracking the impact that rising prices and interest rates are having on the finances, spending, health and wellbeing of low-income households. We aim to make sure that media, government and other ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...