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There is a 20-30 year window of opportunity to help low earners pay for social care, 11 March 2010

Councils can play a greater role in supporting individuals who are ineligible for state funded care to access the equity in their homes to pay for their care. Many low-income households lose out in the current care and support system as they are too rich to qualify for state support, having over the threshold of £23,000 of equity in their house, and too poor to meet care costs out of their relatively low incomes.

Read the full press release here

Read our reports Funding future care need and Home equity: accumulation and decumulation through the life cycle

New reports show toll taken on low earning, hard-working households by the recession, March 2010

Two new reports published today show that low earners have struggled more in the recession because of their exposed and overlooked position compared to both benefit dependent groups and higher earners. This leaves them more susceptible to falling into the benefit-dependent group in the spending squeeze to come.

Read the press release here

Behind the Balance Sheet slides are here

The Low Earner Audit slides are here

Our reports are here

Low earners voting intentions in the General Election

The Resolution Foundation works to improve outcomes for the 7.2 million low earner households in the UK. 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.

To this end, the Foundation is holding low earner select committees in three marginal seats with a high proportion of low earners to explore what issues low income households are concerned about. It will also give their local prospective parliamentary candidates (including the sitting MP) an opportunity to listen and join in the discussion about what they might do as their MP.

We are supporting this work with national polling of low earners. Previously our polling data has shown that low earners are more likely to vote for minority parties and not vote at all compared to the general population.

We have just held our first hearing in South Thanet which is home to the second highest numbers of low earners in the country. It was a great meeting and more information will follow.

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 Febuary 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

The Resolution Foundation urge the government to guarantee jobs for long term unemployed, 18 January 2010

Read our coverage in the Guardian and the Mirror

Read the letter to Yvette Cooper

Sensible pre-budget for low earners, 11 December 2009

Read our press release here

Read our analysis of the Pre- Budget Report here

Importance of Money Guidance highlighted in the second reading of the financial services Bill, 2 December 2009

Read the press release here

Read the transcript of the second reading here

Read the foundation's briefing here

The Resolution Foundation written response to Shaping the Future of Care Together

23 November 2009

Read our response to the social care Green Paper here

Low earners pushed closer to crisis by recession

11 November 2009

The recession risks driving the UK’s 14.3 million low earners closer to crisis as the downturn compounds their already vulnerable position. This is particularly true for the 7.2 million working low earners who will continue to be exposed to job loss long after the recession is technically over. If low earners are not supported to maintain their position in work or helped back into work quickly they are at risk of falling over the cliff edge and into dependency on the state.

Read the report here

Read the executive summary here

A full breakdown of the data is available here

'Trust us', Ministers say on care Green Paper sums

4 November 2009

As a member of the Care and Support Alliance the Resolution Foundation has expressed dismay at the Government’s decision to renege on its’ promise to publish the financial modelling behind the care funding Green Paper. Read press release here

Fairness matters more than speed when it comes to public sector cuts

Guardian Online, 1 October 2009

Read the Foundation's comment piece here

Brown prepares his last desperate roll of the dice

The observer, 27 September 2009

‘In a report to be debated on the Brighton fringe this week, the Resolution Foundation think-tank identifies Chris and Julie – and another 13.7 million low earners like them – as the hidden casualties of the recession.’ ›Read

Audit shows low earners paying high price in recession

12 August 2009

With Job Seekers Allowance data published this week likely to show another rise in unemployment, a new report reveals the heavy toll being taken on lower earners and the impact this may have on the wider economy. ›More

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