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In work poverty: what it is, what it isn’t, why it matters Nothing in Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion – the 19th annual report is published today by the Joseph…

At the end of last week ONS published its annual update of how private rents have increased across the country. As private renting became the second most common tenure (over taking…

One of the big changes in this year’s London’s Poverty Profile is around the “good news” – falling numbers of people claiming out of work benefits, rising numbers of people in…

Last week’s London’s Poverty Profile shows poverty continuing to change in London, with growing in-work poverty and housing stress, even with a labour market recovery.…

Our latest report in the Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion series for Wales finds the country facing two big challenges to how it thinks and responds to poverty. The first of…

The latest official poverty figures for 2013/14 have just been published. In April this year the New Policy Institute published a ‘Nowcasting’ paper in which we looked…

Noting that many disability benefit recipients are in the top half of the income distribution as a justification for taxing them betrays a misunderstanding of the purpose of these…

The poverty debate in Scotland is at a crucial moment. Our report for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation today identifies several distinct challenges for not just the Scottish…

The growing number of private renters in poverty has been one of the biggest poverty changes in recent years. This poses challenges not just in terms of affordability, but quality…

Welfare reform has been one of the most controversial parts of the coalition government’s reform programme since coming to power in 2010. A New Policy Institute…

Even though CPI inflation is currently running well below target at 1.2 per cent, it is not yet time to throw the cost of living crisis into the dustbin of political campaigns…

Today’s State of the Nation Report by the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission has the potential to be the most important official statement on child poverty since Tony…

As the vote and polls have gotten closer, Westminster has promised to give more powers to Scotland even if it remains in the union. But what powers are needed for Scotland to…

The changes to taxes and benefits that came into effect in April 2013 are the Coalition’s most important single package of work and welfare reforms. Some, above all the…

Yesterday we launched our evidence review on disability, long term conditions and poverty at the All Party Parliamentary Group on disability. Produced alongside Disability Rights…

In recent days, the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has released new statistics on council tax collection in England. Covering the period April 2013 to March…

Tomorrow DWP publish the latest official poverty numbers, but politicians, commentators and voters take note: they will reflect the year 2012/13 – before the main benefit cuts were…

Today we launch our third and final briefing on Scotland’s poverty challenges for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The series aims to promote the needs of the poorest people on the…

With less than six months until the independence vote, the housing debate in Scotland needs to go beyond abolishing the ‘bedroom tax’ The main focus of the Scottish…