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Blog posts

Austerity measures threatening community resilience in Wales
Michael Trickey
Help me find out how to address the UK care crisis
John Kennedy
#BeveridgeRebooted: why we need a new deal for the mistrusted welfare system
Julia Unwin

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Featured publications

  • The impact of localising council tax benefit
    Sabrina Bushe, Peter Kenway and Hannah Aldridge
    28 March 2013
  • Monitoring poverty and social exclusion in Scotland 2013
    Hannah Aldridge, Peter Kenway and Tom MacInnes
    21 January 2013
  • Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2012
    Hannah Aldridge, Peter Kenway, Tom MacInnes and Anushree Parekh
    26 November 2012
  • Implementing Universal Credit: will the reforms improve the service for users?
    Amy Tarr and Dan Finn
    30 October 2012
  • A minimum income standard for the UK in 2012
    Abigail Davis, Donald Hirsch, Noel Smith, Jacqueline Beckhelling and Matt Padley
    10 July 2012
  • Can improving UK skills levels reduce poverty and income inequality by 2020?
    Mark Taylor, Tina Haux and Steve Pudney
    27 June 2012
  • Poverty: the role of institutions, behaviours and culture
    Susan Harkness, Paul Gregg and Lindsey MacMillan
    26 June 2012
  • Does the tax and benefit system create a 'couple penalty'?
    Donald Hirsch
    18 June 2012
  • Housing options and solutions for young people in 2020
    David Clapham et al.
    13 June 2012
  • Experiences of forced labour in the UK food industry
    Sam Scott et al.
    15 May 2012
  • The impact of employment changes on poverty in 2020
    Rob Wilson et al.
    09 May 2012
  • Monitoring poverty and social exclusion in Northern Ireland 2012
    Tom MacInnes, Hannah Aldridge, Anushree Parekh and Peter Kenway
    02 May 2012
  • What will #budget2012 mean for UK poverty?
    Gordon Hector
    19 March 2012
  • How to build the economy of the future
    Diane Coyle
    15 March 2012
  • Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2011
    Hannah Aldridge, Anushree Parekh, Tom MacInnes and Peter Kenway
    01 December 2011
  • The riots: what are the lessons from the JRF's work in communities?
    John Low
    08 September 2011
  • Poverty and ethnicity: A review of evidence
    Helen Barnard and Claire Turner
    18 May 2011
  • Tackling housing market volatility in the UK
    Mark Stephens
    17 May 2011
  • Globalisation, UK poverty and communities
    Teresa Hanley
    04 March 2011
  • How can local authorities with less money support better outcomes for older people?
    Centre for Policy on Ageing
    19 January 2011
  • Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2010
    Anushree Parekh, Tom MacInnes and Peter Kenway
    06 December 2010
  • A review of benefit sanctions
    Julia Griggs and Martin Evans
    02 December 2010
  • A minimum income standard for rural households
    Donald Hirsch et al.
    23 November 2010
  • Working-age 'welfare': who gets it, why, and what it costs
    Peter Kenway et al.
    13 October 2010
  • Older people with high support needs: a Round-up of the evidence
    Imogen Blood et al.
    01 October 2010
  • A minimum income standard for the UK in 2010
    Donald Hirsch et al.
    06 July 2010
  • Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2009
    Tom MacInnes, Peter Kenway and Anushree Parekh
    03 December 2009
  • Housing and neighbourhoods monitor
    Cecilia Wong et al.
    17 November 2009
  • Communities in recession: the impact on deprived neighbourhoods
    Becky Tunstall
    21 October 2009
  • Monitoring poverty and social exclusion in Northern Ireland 2009
    A team at the New Policy Institute
    29 September 2009
  • Poverty in the media: Being seen and getting heard
    Fred Robinson et al
    06 July 2009
  • A minimum income standard for Britain in 2009
    Donald Hirsch, Abigail Davis and Noel Smith
    01 July 2009
  • Monitoring poverty and social exclusion in Wales 2009
    Peter Kenway, Guy Palmer and Tom MacInnes
    03 June 2009
  • Options for care funding: What could be done now?
    Sue Collins
    04 March 2009
  • Poverty, inequality and policy since 1997
    John Hills, Tom Sefton and Kitty Stewart
    25 February 2009
  • Ending child poverty in a changing economy
    Donald Hirsch
    18 February 2009
  • Why do people think inequality is worse than poverty?
    Jeremy Seabrook
    10 December 2008
  • Opportunity and aspiration: two sides of the same coin?
    Chris Creegan
    10 December 2008
  • Rethinking social care and support: What can England learn from other countries?
    Caroline Glendinning, David Bell
    27 November 2008
  • Do you recognise pain in someone with a learning difficulty and dementia?
    Heather Wilkinson, Diana Kerr, Colm Cunningham
    27 November 2008
  • A wrong turn in the search for freedom?
    Neal Lawson
    18 November 2008
  • Individualism and consumerism: reframing the debate
    Stephen Thake
    18 November 2008
  • Estimating the costs of child poverty
    Donald Hirsch
    23 October 2008

Recent publications and press releases

Older people with high support needs in housing with care
21 May 2013
Tough on people in poverty – new report shows public’s hardening attitudes to welfare
14 May 2013
Wage inequality and employment polarisation in British cities
06 May 2013
JRF and JRHT position on welfare reform

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