As climate changes, economies stagnate or slow, and colonial patterns of exploitation continue — can creative, critical imagination navigate beyond today’s multiple crises?

Responding to the Chancellor’s Spring Statement and the publication of the government’s impact assessment for their planned cuts to disability benefits, Paul Kissack, Chief Executive of the Joseph ...

Discussion ahead of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) statement on 26 March has focused on whether the Chancellor will meet her fiscal rule, and the extent to which near unprecedented cuts ...

After months of speculation on the nature of a range of potential cuts to health-related benefits, the publication of the Government’s green paper is expected soon. Liz Kendall is expected to set out ...

This report, from the Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP), is the 12th in a series monitoring the number of people living beneath the Minimum Income Standard in the UK. It focuses on 3 groups ...

As AI technologies evolve, they must do so in ways that benefit the whole public. To achieve this, everyone must be given the platform to participate in conversations about the design, use and ...

Tackling hardship must involve improving circumstances for people receiving ‘work-related disability benefits’ (health-related Universal Credit or Employment and Support Allowance) who face ...

Poverty rates over time Poverty in Scotland fell rapidly over the decade from 1999–2002 to 2009–12, from 24% (1.2 million people) to a low of 18% (900,000 people). Over the following decade the trend ...

People going without essentials piles pressure on primary schools and GP surgeries, diverting resources and adding to workloads. We need an urgent action plan for hardship.

Expansion of funded early years childcare in Scotland must focus on children aged 1 and 2, and be designed to reduce poverty as well as costs.

Our team is comprised of a core group of 10 people with lived and learnt knowledge of poverty and poverty stigma. 1 We are from a range of class, ethnic, racial and religious backgrounds. Our team ...

A minimum standard of living is more than just food, clothes and shelter: it’s about having the opportunities and choices to participate in society. This report, from the Centre for Research in Social ...