As a Media Manager, Meg helps JRF to reach key audiences and shape policy debates on solutions to poverty. She predominantly works on JRF's economics, work and care policy areas. Before joining JRF, ...

JRF and Trussell research with More in Common finds public concern with the social security system is high, but this does not translate into widespread support for blunt cuts. When asked what approach ...

This literature review looks at the main patterns, themes and key issues relating to research on ethnicity and experiences in work in the UK.

Most people in poverty are in working families. Almost half of all workers have experienced low pay in the last 5 years. We cannot rely on work alone to shift the dial on child poverty. It is time for ...

The Government needs a new approach to tackling energy affordability. A rising block tariff could be the answer.

Source: JRF analysis of HBAI 2023/24 • Renters are positioned on the rent distribution controlling for bedroom size and region. We do not account for actual bedroom entitlement levels under Local ...

This briefing sets out the argument underpinning a new area of work at JRF, around ownership and distribution of homes in the English housing market. We need to set policy which works to create a ...

There are several challenges facing housebuilding which have led to this situation. Some of these are regulatory. For example, the new building safety regime is clearly having teething issues both due ...

There has been a shameful increase in the level of destitution in the UK, with a growing number of people struggling to afford to meet their most basic physical needs to stay warm, dry, clean and fed.

More than 1 in 5 Scots are currently living in poverty, struggling to survive on incomes that fall below what they need. This includes 1in every 4 children in Scotland. Despite the severity of the ...

Poverty stigma exacerbates shamefully high rates of poverty in the UK. It can affect health as much as trying to survive on a low income. How do we combat it?