Andrew provides statistics and insight for JRF’s Economists on poverty and the labour force. He specialises in analysis using the DWP’s Households Below Average Income and the ONS’s Labour Force Survey. He has been a key contributor to all of JRF’s UK Poverty reports.
Email: andrew.wenham@jrf.org.uk
X: @AnalysisAndrew
The Budget should include a downpayment on the Prime Minister’s 10-year vision for the energy system that builds a new lever to reduce bills and inflation.
Guaranteeing a block of cheaper energy gives all households a safety net while providing the greatest support to those who need it most.
Investment in social security will reduce poverty this April, but progress will stall without a comprehensive set of actions for more than economic growth alone.
Measures in the Budget, especially removing the two-child limit, ease some pain and significantly reduce child poverty, but incomes are projected to fall more in this parliament than any on record.
The Government needs a new approach to tackling energy affordability, a rising block tariff could be the answer.
A year into the new Labour Government, key hardship measures show no improvement - over 7 million low-income families are still going without essentials.
This briefing sets out which children are at greatest risk of such severe and acute poverty, and what a child poverty strategy must include to address it.
Material insecurity can negatively affect mental health, but to tackle the issue we must see how racial injustice intertwines with both – Tom Clark and Andrew Wenham explain why.
Has Britain become an ‘insecure society’? Is anxiety running out of control? If so, could the two things be connected?