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Latest News
Families’ financial struggles to continue regardless of Brexit deal
Social Housing Green Paper: failing families on low incomes
Families in the North locked out of jobs market by ‘unaffordable and unreliable’ local transport
Families in Glasgow locked out of jobs market by ‘unaffordable and unreliable’ local transport
Features
Solving poverty after Brexit
How will Brexit affect low-income people and communities, and what can be done to loosen poverty’s grip? As the UK moves towards leaving the EU, we want to ensure that people who are locked in poverty are prioritised, not forgotten.
A Minimum Income Standard for the UK 2008-2018: continuity and change
Our tenth annual Minimum Income Standard for the UK shows that rising costs are holding families back from achieving a decent minimum living standard, a decade on from the financial crisis.
Destitution in the UK 2018
As a society we believe in protecting each other from harm and yet last year over 1.5 million people in the UK were pushed into destitution, going without the bare essentials and locked out of the chance of building a decent and secure life.
UK Poverty 2017
This report, which has been produced in-house by the JRF Analysis Unit for the first time, examines poverty rates in the UK, and looks at how figures have changed over the past two decades.
Solve UK poverty
Poverty in the UK is real, costly and harmful, affecting millions of people. We can do something about it if we choose to.
How we mapped working-age poverty risk by parliamentary constituency
We have mapped the risks of working-age poverty across Great Britain, looking at out-of-work benefits, in-work tax credits, low pay and skill levels to provide a constituency-level snapshot of where high levels of working-age poverty are most likely to exist.
Talking about poverty
The Talking about poverty project, run in partnership with the FrameWorks Institute, is developing a more effective way of communicating about UK poverty, based on new research.
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