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In Summer 2023, JRF’s innovative new Insight Infrastructure team commissioned CASM, the digital research unit at the cross-party think tank Demos, to complete an exploratory project examining how people with lived experiences of financial hardship are talking about their experiences...
Yesterday we published our new groundbreaking research that uses social media listening analytics to explore the experience and impact of poverty, by listening to those with direct experience of the issues we care about. In my previous blog, I described the reasoning behind...
We’ve tried something new. At JRF we are exploring how to make greater contributions to the generation of better and timely insights on poverty, social and economic inequalities, by adopting an ‘infrastructure’ mindset. One of the key aspects of our...
Is Britain in decline? 2023 is looking bleak for the UK economy. According to the recent IMF forecast, it will be the only major economy in recession this year. They pointed the finger at relatively short-term problems: inflation, energy prices and...
In a speech aiming to kick off a “big year”, Keir Starmer this week put respect at the heart of his political vision. It’s easy to mock the use of abstract nouns in politics – especially when they’re forgotten by...
The Ministry for Local Government is no longer. The recently renamed Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has sent many commentators scrambling, asking: is this a cosmetic change, a nominal change in lieu of real change? Or does this...
During the Covid-19 pandemic, for many people, computer screens have become a crucial connection to the outside world, and online spaces the stand-in for physical places – offices, schools, shops, pubs. Over the summer, our research found that while people...
“We are a poor family living in a flat with no technology or space to work. There is no way I can get the children to do the work.” Male in his 40s, living in Scotland, Demos’ Renew Normal survey...
The Black Lives Matter movement has reignited the long running issue of whether those who lead us are representative of the population. Currently there are no black cabinet ministers, 65% of the cabinet were educated privately compared to 7% of...
