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A Centre for Social Justice inquiry maps about 3,000 local areas where over half of working‑age adults receive benefits, and reports that almost 900,000 working‑age people are on benefits, highlighting Britain’s scale of worklessness.
Presents new findings that improving household economic security can itself drive productivity growth, positioning economic security as a policy lever for stronger, more resilient economic performance.
Analysis of US income and wealth since 2000 finds growth across lower-, middle- and upper-income households, but the largest gains accrued to the upper-income group, underscoring rising disparities in relative terms.
A Centre for Social Justice analysis finds a worker on the National Living Wage must work more than 50 hours a week—around six days—to take home the equivalent of combined means‑tested benefits, highlighting weak pay incentives.
Forty-four percent of Americans experienced difficulty affording a basic necessity in the past year, with the burden concentrated among lower-income adults, highlighting widespread cost-of-living pressures.
Since 2019 an increasing share of Americans who say inequality is too high now believe the economic system must be completely rebuilt, reflecting a shift toward more systemic views of inequality and its remedies.
Socio-economic differences in who attends university have remained effectively unchanged over the past two decades, with students from less advantaged backgrounds — described as those who would gain most from higher education — still least likely to enrol.
New analysis finds the poorest students gain most from attending university and urges higher education institutions to increase outreach and support aimed at low-income pupils to improve access and boost life-time returns to degrees for disadvantaged groups.
Presents analysis of outcomes for ethnic and religious minority groups in Northern Ireland, examining disparities across social and economic indicators to inform policy on inclusion and equality.
Argues universities must integrate widening participation across institutions rather than rely on isolated teams, warning that siloed summer schools and programmes will limit universities’ impact on social mobility.
Provides annual UK estimates for 2025 of the number of children living in households where all adults have not worked for at least 12 months, delivering a measure of long‑term household worklessness affecting children.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation examines the scale of living standards challenges for Andy Burnham’s area, assessing pressures on low- and middle-income households and options to restore income growth amid the cost of living crisis.
New Local has published a protected post titled ‘Tackling Poverty – case studies from members’, indicating a members‑only collection of local case studies on poverty interventions but no public excerpt is available.
Registered deaths of people experiencing homelessness in England and Wales are published as official statistics in development, covering trends and counts of deaths among people identified as experiencing homelessness between 2013 and 2025 registrations.
ONS counted 981,000 16–24-year-old NEETs in April–June 2026, with 393,000 actively unemployed. The number has risen for four years and only Romania now has a higher NEET rate in the EU, the paper argues for urgent labour-market reform.
Registered deaths of people identified as homeless in England and Wales for 2025, published as official statistics in development to quantify and monitor mortality among the homeless population.
A webinar launching Destitution in the UK 2026, presenting research on destitution and arguing for bold policy responses; scheduled for Thursday 26 November, 2:00–3:30pm.
Almost £10 million will be invested across 45 English communities to improve access to healthy, affordable food in areas with the highest deprivation, aiming to reduce food insecurity and make “good food” more reachable locally.
Briefing examines how UK inflation from 2021–24 has continued to affect household incomes, spending, poverty, savings and debt, detailing the distributional impacts and ongoing pressures on living standards across income groups.
Presents UK statistics on household food insecurity, food bank use and free school meal eligibility and uptake, tracking changes alongside rising living costs to show recent demand and pressure on welfare support for low-income families.
Explains what poverty means and how it can be measured, outlining different definitions, indicators and factors that determine poverty rather than offering new empirical findings or policy prescriptions.
Examines lived experiences of Roma people in England and Wales, covering migration and settlement patterns, access to public services, and aspects of identity and sense of belonging within UK communities.
The Sutton Trust responds to the Department for Education’s plans to introduce vocational, job‑focussed GCSE subjects, setting out its views on potential impacts on social mobility and attainment from these proposed qualifications.
Quarterly statistics on working and workless households in Northern Ireland (April–June 2026), detailing households by adults’ economic activity and the composition of children and adults in working or workless homes.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation finds poverty remains too high in Scotland with national targets missed, calls for radical change and a stronger role for local government in both delivering poverty reduction and in its relationship with the Scottish Government.
Highlights slowing pay growth, accelerating inflation and a troubling Bank of England outlook for the cost of living, signalling tougher household finances this winter and urging attention to wage, price and policy dynamics affecting living standards.
Department for Work and Pensions published statistics on the number of households subject to the benefit cap between 15 April 2013 and May 2026, updating the long‑running dataset on capped households.
Findings from the Opinions and Lifestyle Survey covering public opinions and social trends in Great Britain for August 2026, including attitudes on key issues, household water use and restrictions, and the cost of living.
Sharon Graham of Unite says the frozen personal allowance of about £12,500 would be over £16,000 without recent freezes, arguing low‑paid workers face excessive income tax and NI. She backs progressive taxation and hints at using consumption and ‘sin’ taxes.
This JRF summary of Poverty in Scotland 2026 outlines public attitudes to local government, argues for reform of local funding and urges councils to use all available levers to reduce and prevent poverty locally.