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Modern Poverty: What’s changed in 20 years and why work is no longer the route out of poverty in the UK

After six disastrous years, the number of children in poverty in the UK when the Covid-19 pandemic struck in early 2020 had returned to where it was in 1999, when the government announced its goal of abolishing child poverty within a generation. But …

Published: 31st Aug 2021
Authors: Peter Kenway, Josh Holden
Category: Income and Poverty

Addressing racial inequity in Covid recovery - Employment briefing paper

This briefing paper examines the employment and labour market inequalities that Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities experienced before the Covid-19 pandemic, in order to help identify challenges to be addressed during the recovery pha…

Published: 16th Apr 2021
Authors: Carla Ayrton, Josh Holden
Category: Income and Poverty

The State of Economic Justice in Birmingham and the Black Country

This is a report about Birmingham and the Black Country – the local authority areas of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton – and the economic outcomes for the people who live here. Economic justice is concerned with the extent to which the ec…

Published: 28th Feb 2019
Authors: Carla Ayrton, Josh Holden, Peter Kenway, Adam Tinson
Category: Income and Poverty

In-work poverty in Gwynedd

This report examines in-work poverty in the rural, urban, coastal and post-industrial districts of Gwynedd. Commissioned by Gwynedd Council, the report is available in English (download here) and Welsh (download here). The views expressed in the rep…

Published: 15th Aug 2018
Authors: Peter Kenway, Issy Petrie, Adam Tinson
Category: Income and Poverty

Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion (MPSE) 2016

This latest annual report from the New Policy Institute brings together the most recent data to present a comprehensive picture of poverty in the UK. Key points include: The number of private renters in poverty has doubled over the last decade. T…

Published: 6th Dec 2016
Authors: Adam Tinson, Carla Ayrton, Karen Barker, Theo Barry Born, Hannah Aldridge, Peter Kenway
Category: Income and Poverty

Women, work and wages in the UK

This report assembles some of the key trends on earnings and employment for women in order to assess how much progress has been made and to what extent women are becoming more or less disadvantaged. It considers some of the longstanding challenges fa…

Published: 31st Oct 2016
Authors: Adam Tinson, Hannah Aldridge
Category: Work and Pay

Demography and deprivation in Southwark and Tower Hamlets

This paper uses statistics to describe demographics, housing, education, employment, poverty and deprivation across and within Southwark, Tower Hamlets, and the City of London. The first half of the paper focuses on comparisons between the boroughs …

Published: 6th Sep 2016
Author: Theo Barry Born
Category: Income and Poverty

Disability and Poverty

Reducing poverty among disabled people has to be at the heart of any attempts to reduce poverty overall in the United Kingdom (UK). This is because, first, disabled people have higher poverty rates than the rest of the population – poverty rates that…

Published: 11th Aug 2016
Authors: Adam Tinson, Hannah Aldridge, Theo Barry Born, Ceri Hughes
Category: Income and Poverty

Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion in Northern Ireland 2016

This Findings from the New Policy Institute brings together the latest data to show the extent and nature of poverty in Northern Ireland. It focuses on the links between poverty, work, and education. Key points • Twenty per cent of people in Northe…

Published: 15th Mar 2016
Author: Adam Tinson
Category: Income and Poverty

Low pay and company size

April 2016 marks the introduction of the new national living wage, effectively a rebranded minimum wage for those aged 25 and over. This year it will be set at £7.20 per hour, rising to £9.00 per hour by 2020. This paper sets out an initial estimate…

Published: 22nd Feb 2016
Authors: Tom MacInnes, Peter Kenway
Category: Work and Pay

Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion 2015

Our annual statistical review of poverty and social exclusion in the United Kingdom addresses a broad range of indicators, spanning income, employment, social security, education, health, housing and homelessness. The report looks at changes over the…

Published: 23rd Nov 2015
Authors: Tom MacInnes, Adam Tinson, Ceri Hughes, Theo Barry Born, Hannah Aldridge
Category: Income and Poverty

London's Poverty Profile 2015

London’s Poverty Profile looks at the extent and depth of poverty in London. It is an independent report that presents evidence from official government data sources. The scope of this report is not limited to low income; it looks at the role of ineq…

Published: 20th Oct 2015
Authors: Hannah Aldridge, Theo Barry Born, Adam Tinson, Tom MacInnes
Category: Income and Poverty

Who are the self-employed?

The labour market is changing. One of the key components of the change is the rise in the number of people who are self-employed. One in seven people now work for themselves, and the recovering strength of the labour market is in part down to the gro…

Published: 8th Oct 2015
Author: Adam Tinson
Category: Work and Pay

Ongoing research: Understanding business perspectives on poverty

There is increasing recognition among policy makers in Scotland that businesses have a role to play in addressing poverty. Yet it remains unclear what scope businesses themselves see for getting involved in this agenda. A clearer understanding of wha…

Published: 8th Sep 2015
Category: Work and Pay

Trends in parental employment in London

Background Between 2010 and 2013, the number of children in London living in families where no adult was working fell by around 100,000 or about 25%. This is a very rapid change, all the more so in the light of London’s reputation as suffering from …

Published: 1st Sep 2015
Authors: Declan Gaffney, Hannah Aldridge
Category: Work and Pay

Contesting a budget for working people

SummaryAnnouncing Wednesday 8 July as the date of his second Budget of the year, George Osborne told the Sun that it would be a budget “for working people”. When the Prime Minister called the Queen’s Speech a “programme for working people”, it was cl…

Published: 7th Jul 2015
Author: Peter Kenway
Category: Work and Pay

Beneath the bonnet: how sound is Britain’s economic recovery?

The UK economy has had a difficult time since the global banking crisis led to what many call the great recession of 2008 and 2009. Calculations vary of exactly how much output we have ‘lost’ since then as a result of deviating from the historical tr…

Published: 26th Apr 2015
Authors: Dan Corry, Peter Kenway, Steve Barwick
Category: Economic Policy

Referendum briefing: poverty and work in Scotland

This is the final of three briefings on key poverty issues in the run-up to the Scottish independence referendum. This briefing focuses on work in Scotland, and what a stronger labour market might mean for reducing poverty. Key points include: Th…

Published: 10th Jun 2014
Authors: Adam Tinson, Peter Kenway
Category: Income and Poverty

Referendum briefing: child poverty in Scotland

This is the first in a series of three report published before the Scottish independence vote. Child poverty in Scotland has fallen by 10 percentage points in the last ten years – about twice the fall in England. This report explores what the factors…

Published: 2nd Feb 2014
Authors: Hannah Aldridge, Peter Kenway
Category: Income and Poverty

The Overall Impact on Public Finances of Meeting the Local Government Trade Unions' 2014-15 Pay Claim

This pamphlet, commissioned by Unison, seeks to estimate the overall impact on public finances of the Trade Union Side’s 2014-15 pay claim for all employees in local government covered by the National Joint Council (NJC). The claim is for an extra £1…

Published: 18th Dec 2013
Authors: Peter Kenway, Adam Tinson
Category: Local Government

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