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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.
Our Chart of the Week: a look at how, during the recent jobs surge, the very biggest changes in employment rates didn't take place in London - but in traditionally low employment urban areas - with South Yorkshire and Merseyside seeing the biggest shifts. resolutionfoundation.org/media/blog/top…
Just how 'local' should a prospective MP aspire to be - plus how Trump’s America could solve our civil servant crisis: some Saturday morning reading from our Director @TorstenBell: resolutionfoundation.org/media/blog/top…
In case you missed it earlier this week, our latest report delved into Britain's record employment levels - looking at how this almost unprecedented situation has shaped the country: resolutionfoundation.org/publications/s…
1/7 Interesting developments in the unsecured credit market over the past two years. A net balance of Bank of England agents have reported a tightening of credit scoring criteria in every quarter since the end of 2016 (with more expected in at the start of 2019) Retweeted by ResolutionFoundation
7/7 Something which the Bank’s Credit Conditions Survey (bankofengland.co.uk/credit-conditi…) seems to back up, with the a net balance of agents reporting improvements in the average quality of new unsecured lending over the course of 2018 Retweeted by ResolutionFoundation
What do new sales figures, released today, tell us about the state of Britain's retail sector? Firstly: the volume of GB sales in December 2018 was 3% higher than a year earlier, meaning that year-on-year growth rates in 2017 and 2018 were consistently lower than during 2014-16.
Why cities no longer pay for the low paid, a Brexit related silver lining to US government shutdown, plus does an ageing society explain.... everything. All in this week's Top of the Charts resolutionfoundation.org/media/blog/top… Retweeted by ResolutionFoundation
