News and Comment

The Low Earners Audit and Behind the Balance Sheet published today, 8 March 2010

Read our press release here

Read audit summary here & slides

Read Behind the Balance Sheet here & slides

Supporting people into work: the next stage of housing benefit reform, 22 February 2010

Read our response to this DWP consultation here

Care and Support Conference, 19 February 2010

The Resolution Foundation attends the care and support and agrees summary

Low earners voting intentions in the General Election

In the lead up to the next general election we want to understand what issues motivate low earners to vote and for whom, especially as they make up a third of the electorate ›more

Fuel poverty, February 2010

Read our Memorandum to the House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee here

Put social care above party squabbles, 13 February 2010

Read our letter to The Times here

The Resolution Foundation welcomes the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's reports on cycles of poverty, unemployment and low pay, 9 February 2010

Read our press release here

Find the Joseph Rowntree Foundation reports here

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Events

The Northern Money Conference 2010, 1 March 2010

Acting director, Sophia Parker, sat on the panel at the Northern Money Conference; a financial inclusion conference focussed on meeting the financial needs of people on low and moderate incomes

Conference programme

Presentation - Behind the balance sheet: the financial health of low earning households

The first Financial Health Forum of the year was held on the 13th of January

Event summary

Presentation - Resolution Foundation and the Financial Health Forum

Presentation - An update on money guidance by Chris Pond, Financial Services Authority

Presentation - The Financial Health index, Lee Savage

Please contact Cara Brown, External Affairs Manager, for further information on these and any upcoming events.