A key annual event in the Challenge Poverty Week calendar is the launch of JRF's Poverty in Scotland report. This year’s report gives a snapshot of poverty rates and then looks in detail at how the ...

The different ways that people think about social issues and how this affects social and policy change.

As winter energy prices rise again, people will be plunged deeper into hardship unless the government acts. The Budget must ...

Many community organisations are overwhelmed by high levels of hardship, unable to focus on long-term work. Some areas lack ...

Cassandra leads on our movement effectiveness programme, engaging with funders, infrastructure organisations, grassroots activists and non-profit organisations to support movements for change.

Weak economy: this uses a forecast with higher inflation, lower earnings growth, lower employment and higher housing costs compared to the central scenario. Note that these are modelled conditional ...

In response to the Chancellor of the Exchequer's speech at Labour party conference, Alfie Stirling, Director and Chief Economist of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, said: “Families who have been ...