Relative and absolute poverty can be presented before and after housing costs (these include rent or mortgage interest, buildings insurance and water rates) and are presented after direct taxes and ...

Responding to today's Scottish Budget, JRF Associate Director for Scotland Chris Birt said: “While this budget won't eradicate child poverty, the First Minister’s stated driving purpose, it does show ...

Despite large falls in the poverty rates in many minority ethnic households over the past 25 years, these households continue to face a much higher risk of experiencing poverty than people in white ...

Most people are concerned about the shortage of decent and affordable homes in the UK and support the broad idea that we need to build more. Yet we can sometimes face opposition when making the case ...

What key aspects and principles make this community's participatory approach successful? Dundee people with lived experience of poverty share their thoughts.

Sharing our learning from past and present work to support the ongoing evolvement of more equitable, democratic and justice led approaches to social change. Our work in this area exists to continually ...

JRF is looking at the potential for AI to generate public good. We'll be platforming some inspiring thinkers while positioning ourselves as an inquisitive explorer of this topic. We’re exploring the ...

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Sharing our analysis on stigma power and poverty from programmes of work that centre the voices and experiences communities experiencing poverty and stigma. Beyond its effects on individuals, stigma ...

Tackling deprivation is urgent and will require policy action in areas such as reforming Universal Credit. But even if we get these reforms right, there will always be a crucial role played by ...

Rachelle's research focuses on decent and affordable housing, and fiscal and economic policy. Rachelle previously worked as an analyst at the New Zealand Treasury, where she coordinated the Budgets, ...