As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it.
Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.
Just naked racism from Farage and the Mail.
Only British and commonwealth citizens are allowed to vote. It's not 'stealing' to legally take part in your own country's elections
Various taxes as a proportion of gross household income for nonpensioner households, by whole-population income vigintile, after housing costs: UK, 2023-24
Council Tax has become increasingly regressive.
It now takes nearly 5% of income from the poorest families but barely 1% from the richest. For many, it's become a grinding monthly obligation to rival the Poll Tax.
A photo of JRF Chief Analyst with a quote about the latest Households Below MIS report. Peter says: When millions of lives continue to be blighted by rising costs and wages that are refusing to catch it's on all political parties to show their commitment to raising living standards. Only by bringing people's costs down and boosting their incomes will people start to feel better off by the end of the decade."
More than two-thirds of households struggling to afford a decent life are in work.
New research from @lborouniversity.bsky.social funded by JRF, sets out the scale of the problem. A 🧵
I am sick, absolutely sick, of the retreat of civic society, the media and the other political parties in the face of Reform UK - one of the most existential threats the state structures have faced for decades.
'For the cost of living'. Map of UK on blue background, bubbles contain Living Wage Rates for 2025-26 - £13.45 UK Living Wage, £14.80 London Living Wage
📣The real Living Wage rates have risen!
⭐£13.45 across the UK
⭐ £14.80 in London
Half a million workers will get a pay rise thanks to the commitment of a growing movement of over 16,000 leading employers such as @ikeauk.bsky.social Everton Football Club and @avivaplc.bsky.social
New figures from Shelter show that the number of children homeless or in temporary accommodation in England has reached its highest level since records began.
172,420 kids without a permanent home of their own- an 8% increase in a single year.
“I think politicians are ignoring prices and bills and hoping we’ll forget about them and find something else to complain about…”
My report on how the flighty Westminster bubble forgot about the cost-of-living crisis, which certainly isn't over:
This is what we keep seeing- and keep saying- at Citizens Advice. Was in Durham today speaking to debt advisors and no one there thought the cost of living crisis had ended.
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Chart from https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/policy/publications/benefit-cuts-dont-have-widespread-support/ showing that the majority of people do not support planned or expected social security cuts in the UK
📢 Benefit cuts don’t have widespread support
After a year of a new govt people on low to middle incomes are still struggling to reach the Minimum Income Standard (MIS) 📢
@crsp-uk.bsky.social, supported by JRF, calculated the costs needed to achieve this standard of living in the UK in 2025 1/4
Our latest @crsp-uk.bsky.social report for @jrf-uk.bsky.social, out today, paints a stark picture for households on low-to-middle incomes, for whom benefits and earnings still leave them far short of a minimum living standard. Hear more from @mattpadley.bsky.social below.
At least someone thinks Starmer is a socialist. That person is insane but still
These are the exact same papers that spent years cheering on the Conservative party's big new restrictions on the right to protest, the right to strike and the blacklisting from official events of anyone who publicly criticised them
We can all laugh about the bloody snowmobile but do you know what else is on the list?
Toys.
We are banning desperate mothers from doing anything to support their children’s learning.
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Timely new research with a new term looming highlighting the gap between students' living costs and maintenance loans.
@mattpadley.bsky.social @lboropr.bsky.social
This is a big reasom why students are increasingly living at home and commuting to their local university — and why we need good strong local universities in all regions of the UK.
Delighted to give evidence to Work and Pensions Committee on pensioner poverty. Report says "retirement should be dignified and not a struggle at the poverty line." @jrf-uk.bsky.social and @crsp-uk.bsky.social's Minimum Income Standard measures this. What do the stats show? It's not good news (1/4).
New government data on the impact of the two child limit: 469,780 households now affected, with 1,665,540 children in those households
Almost 40,000 more children affected since last year
It's a child poverty machine & it will cost us all more in the long term - get rid of it
This is nonsense. The impact assessment starts from an imaginary baseline incorporating reforms planned but never implemented by the previous government
In the real world, the cuts that remain in the Bill will push around 50,000 disabled people into poverty www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
The share of employees in low pay (defined as people with hourly pay below 2/3 median) has fallen to an all time low of 3 per cent thanks to increases in the minimum wage.
That awkward thing where you write an annual report called 'Low Pay Britain' but 'low pay' has been all but eliminated (on the standard hourly pay < 2/3 median measure).
(Our 2025 Low Pay Britain report is out on Thursday, launch event here www.resolutionfoundation.org/events/new-d... )
Really sad news. Such an important organisation and funder. And as importantly, such a lovely team to work with. Gutted for everyone affected by this.
May 2025: median wage of a UK worker, £30,252; net £25,293.
In 2024 (2025?) a single person needed to earn £28,000 for minimum acceptable standard of living; £69,400 for a couple with two children.
Low incomes, unchecked profiteering blights life.
50 families have more wealth than 34m Britons.
UK Govt whip quits over disability benefit cuts.
Why pursue this cruel cut? Govt backtracked on Winter Fuel Payment.
Rebellion will grow, people will be alienated.
Govt finds money for wars, corporate welfare/bailouts; tax concessions to non-doms and private equity. But not for poor, disabled.
Our new research on what’s needed to live with dignity in the UK capital is out today. The big shift is from social to private rented housing for households with children. I’ve blogged about that here: trustforlondon.org.uk/news/minimum...
Really good to be at the University of Economics, Varna as part of summer school focused on building knowledge and collaboration around reference budgets in Europe.
48 and a half years on this planet without having a watched The Sound of Music. What a fool I have been. What a film!
Together with @liverpooluni.bsky.social, @goodthingsfdn.bsky.social and Nuffield Foundation, we've developed a single Minimum Digital Living Standard (MDLS) -a benchmark on what households need to be digitally included.
Find out what the MDLS for UK households is in 2025 here tinyurl.com/3aw2d2mv
Really pleased to be invited to speak at the National Association of Welfare Rights Advisors Summit in Stockport today - discussing the value of advice and the costs of non-uptake of benefits @nawra.bsky.social
