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Analysis and action on living standards
Our Living Standards Audit, updated for 2018, estimates how household incomes have performed over the last year, and examines under-reporting of benefit incomes in official survey data,
This report contains the Commission’s conclusions, drawing on a deep and wide-ranging examination of the experiences and prospects of different generations in Britain.
This year’s report – the eighth edition of Low Pay Britain – documents the headline trends shaping the low-paid end of the labour market today and highlights the new challenges policymakers should be addressing.
A look beyond the headline data on the forces behind current developments in pay, how the fruits are shared, and the short- and longer-term drivers of earnings growth.
The types of jobs we do has changed a lot over the last decade. @stephenlclarke explains the sharp rise, plateauing and slight fall of atpyical - and often insecure - work. These jobs remain far more prevalent today than before the crisis resolutionfoundation.org/publications/s…
New figures today show a drop in inflation, with further falls expected - and we’re likely to see inflation dip below 2% for the first time since February 2017 next month. Here's a breakdown in five charts from our analyst @stephenlclarke.
Useful thread here from the Low Pay Commission on recent jobs growth for low-paid workers. Further evidence that the National Living Wage is delivering a welcome pay boost without the negative effects on employment that some warned about twitter.com/lpcminimumwage…
The one million missing homes? Our housing expert Lindsay Judge explores England's housing stock shortage - and how it has been getting worse over the last 20 years resolutionfoundation.org/media/blog/the…
Catch-up service: yesterday we hosted an event on the successes and challenges of Britain's labour market with @AlokSharma_RDG @AndrewCities @lizsayce @stephenlclarke & @TorstenBell . You can watch the whole event here resolutionfoundation.org/events/the-job…
