In response to the Prime Minister's new Plan for Change, JRF Principal Policy Adviser Abby Jitendra said: "The lowest income families have endured years of unyielding and overwhelming struggle which ...

Responding to today's Scottish Budget, JRF Associate Director for Scotland Chris Birt said: “While this budget won't eradicate child poverty, the First Minister’s stated driving purpose, it does show ...

The Government must tackle stagnant levels of hardship as part of their mission for growth, with worse living standards to ...

Latest research from October 2024 finds hardship is embedded in the UK, with around 7m low-income households going without essentials. This number has barely moved for three years. 5.4 million ...

Bangladeshi, Black African and Pakistani households are 2 to 3 times more likely to experience persistent very deep poverty, ...

Tackling hardship for people receiving work-related disability benefits People receiving ‘work-related disability benefits’ – health-related Universal Credit (UC) or Employment and Support Allowance ...

JRF is looking at the potential for AI to generate public good. We'll be platforming some inspiring thinkers while positioning ourselves as an inquisitive explorer of this topic. We’re exploring the ...

Sharing our learning from past and present work to support the ongoing evolvement of more equitable, democratic and justice led approaches to social change. Our work in this area exists to continually ...

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There is no single best measure of poverty. It is a complex problem that needs a range of measures telling us different ...