The different ways that people think about social issues and how this affects social and policy change.

As winter energy prices rise again, people will be plunged deeper into hardship unless the government acts. The Budget must ...

Many community organisations are overwhelmed by high levels of hardship, unable to focus on long-term work. Some areas lack ...

Cassandra leads on our movement effectiveness programme, engaging with funders, infrastructure organisations, grassroots activists and non-profit organisations to support movements for change.

Weak economy: this uses a forecast with higher inflation, lower earnings growth, lower employment and higher housing costs compared to the central scenario. Note that these are modelled conditional ...

In response to the Chancellor of the Exchequer's speech at Labour party conference, Alfie Stirling, Director and Chief Economist of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, said: “Families who have been ...

Successive changes to UK immigration law have explicitly aimed to create a ‘hostile environment’ for migrants, including by restricting their access to statutory supports like the social security ...

Jaspal is an Investment Portfolio Manager at JRF. His principal activity is to manage the foundation’s investment portfolio of approx. £0.5bn. Prior to joining JRF, Jaspal was Head of Asset Allocation ...

JRF is looking at the potential for AI to generate public good. We'll be platforming some inspiring thinkers while positioning ourselves as an inquisitive explorer of this topic. We’re exploring the ...

Surging interest rates in late 2022 led to much speculation about the future of the housing market, including concerns that the greater share of private landlords exposed to rising interest rates ...

New approaches to public policy and decision-making need a comprehensive understanding of what this remarkable technology offers, and its potential implications. The power of the latest AI ...

The Minimum Income Standard (MIS) provides a vision of the living standards that we as a society agree everyone in the UK should be able to achieve. The Minimum Income Standard (MIS) sets out the ...