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 ...

Private rental prices continue to rise across the country, up by 8.4% across the UK between August 2023 and August 2024. Average rents increased to £1,327 (8.5%) in England, £752 (8.5%) in Wales and ...

In their manifesto, Labour committed to ‘end mass dependence on emergency food parcels, which is a moral scar on our society’. This is an ambitious and commendable aim, which, if delivered correctly, ...

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 ...