Graeme Cooke
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Vital point from @StatsPeter: progress on absolute poverty over the last decade or so is really nothing to boast about.
Great article from Gordon Brown & @patrickjbutler: https://t.co/kM8h2vhNBJ. Government keeps saying absolute poverty is down to respond. Yes, that measure is down, but it normally goes down come what may & the performance even on this metric could be much stronger as this shows.
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This is happening because of a deterioration of rent affordability that’s occurred over 45 years Our @jrf_uk report diagnoses the causes of the affordability crisis and highlights the real solutions
jrf.org.uk
Rents in the private and social rented sectors are close to their highest for decades as a share of tenants’ incomes. This report examines why, and the policy options that could help tenants stay...
Council leaders holding emergency meeting in Westminster to warn govt the cost of housing homeless people is pushing then to brink of bankruptcy. Eastbourne’s Council leader says they are spending 49p in every £1 of taxpayers money on temporary accommodation.
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Whatever you do today read this. The depth & breadth of #UKPoverty is shameful - millions stuck & struggling every day, health & life chances stunted. It must spur us to action & all of us have a role to play - as voters, leaders, campaigners, neighbours & more @jrf_uk
📊 Our latest #UKPoverty report launched this morning. 🔍 14.4 million people were living in poverty in 2021/22 – and our analysis shows that millions of people would need thousands of pounds just to escape poverty. (1/5)
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6 million people would need to DOUBLE their household income to escape poverty.
📊 Our latest #UKPoverty report launched this morning. 🔍 14.4 million people were living in poverty in 2021/22 – and our analysis shows that millions of people would need thousands of pounds just to escape poverty. (1/5)
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Very powerful. And right.
"I'm seeing poverty I never thought I would see in my lifetime again" Gordon Brown says the goal is to abolish food banks but we have to deal with the "here and now" as "2024 could be a worse year for poverty" and we need to do "far more". https://t.co/PAiZ4D1jU3 📺 Sky 501
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LHA has been frozen since April 2020 while rents have soared. From April 2024 it will be unfrozen to cover the bottom 30% of rents. @jrf_uk we’ve calculated that the cumulative shortfall that renters have faced because of the freezes in the last decade has been £5000. 🧵1/x
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@GraemeCooke3 outlines the need for modern supply side economics to speak to the sense of insecurity felt by individual households. He argues this is not just the right policy approach but has political benefits too. https://t.co/BwyYzTxTmI
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Clips from the Finance Committee earlier on. This year's budget does fail to make progress in reducing poverty and people are really struggling. We also need to grasp the thistle on some big issues: "We cannot just sit here and say we've spent all the money, we're stuck".
'I think @scotgov could certainly have done more around poverty.' 📽️⬇️ @cdbirt, Associate Director for Scotland of @jrf_uk, opens the first @SP_FinancePAC meeting of 2024. The committee is currently scrutinising the 2024-25 Budget, watch on SPTV: https://t.co/tB8aMjvc19
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Great to have written for this special edition. My piece argues that expanding economic security for households can make a major contribution to national economic success, while ensuring the latter delivers a social justice dividend. You can read it here:
📢Today we launch a special edition of @IPPR's inhouse journal Progressive Review on modern supply side economics We feature a lead article by @RachelReevesMP on her vision for how "securonomics" can reinvigorate the British economy in an age of insecurity. But that's not all...
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This is a great provocation on an extremely important topic: AI for public good. Look out for more on this theme into next year from my ace colleague @yasminibison
Excited to announce my new project at @jrf_uk on AI for public good! This opening blog explains the rationale for this project - how it prioritises new ideas & relationships over advancing specific policy solutions - and the questions it will be exploring. https://t.co/u20Z85GNYv
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❄️ As winter draws in, it's clear that the UK economy isn't working for people on the lowest incomes. Around four million low-income households currently hold a loan or line of credit taken out to pay for food, housing costs, energy bills or council tax. https://t.co/v6QhrccCms
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Energy costs are a key concern to charities, just as gas and electricity prices are about to rise again.
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We know the UK is suffering from stagnant living standards. But we also have a problem with *volatile* household incomes. We're a (big) outlier in both month-to-month & year-to year income instability. Stagnant + volatile = a very bad political/social cocktail.
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Amazing to launch a new website https://t.co/yuV57Sdqaw and refreshed visual identity today! 🌟 It's been a pleasure to collaborate on and marks the start of a whole new set of tools for us to work with @jrf_uk in support of our mission!
jrf.org.uk
At the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, we work to speed up and support the transition to a future free from poverty, in which people and planet can flourish.
📢 We’re delighted to introduce our new website and refreshed visual identity! 📢 https://t.co/rUw0zLAseY (1/3) 🔽🧵
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Some personal reflections on my so far time at @jrf_uk scoping a new project on AI for Public Good- how overwhelming this process has been & why, despite this, I think it's vital for those of us without formal tech expertise to have a voice in AI debates! https://t.co/WRgP93iQeY
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Reflections on a new project at JRF
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It's not a coincidence that these were years of severe benefit cuts, with the UK's expenditure on family cash benefits per child as a percentage of GDP per capita falling the most out of all countries considered between 2010 and 2019, according to the report. 4/5
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Devastating @UNICEF league table on changes in child poverty over 7+ years up to 2021: UK in the bottom spot Report: https://t.co/cbMIKYpSZ4
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Having a savings buffer is one of the biggest predictors of experiencing hardship at the moment. Our latest COL tracker finds 87% of low income households with no savings went without essentials like food & heating in the last 6 months compared to 35% with savings of over £1000
Overall, low-income households are 2.5x more likely to be going without essentials if they have no savings (87%), compared to those with more than £1000 in savings (35%).
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What can we learn from international childcare systems & markets? Very exciting to have the first report out from this @jrf_uk-funded project which doesn’t just look at what support parents get but how childcare systems are structured, governed, regulated & managed. (1/
Our current early education and childcare (ECEC) system isn't working. Our latest report is looking for solutions. Read Transforming Early Childhood Education and Care: Sharing International Learning, Part 1, online now: https://t.co/q2Jy12EYoM
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We are hiring! Are you a great analyst? Do you want a senior role in a fantastic organisation? Do you want to use your skills to uncover facts about poverty & insecurity in Britain to make the case for the changes our country needs? Apply now! https://t.co/Hjp5IgGyAy
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