Matt Padley
@crspmatt
Co-Director and Professor @CRSP_LboroUni. Research/think/write on poverty, living standards, income, retirement. Running sneaks in now & then.
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http://www.crsp.ac.uk/ 11-09-2012 12:44:18
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Ever wondered what goes into calculating the real Living Wage? Listen to Nye Cominetti from Resolution Foundation talk about exactly how the real Living Wage is calculated in the first episode of Wagestream's new Invisible Worker podcast 👇 #livingwage youtube.com/watch?v=IQ_xRv…
What's the history of the real Living Wage? And how is it calculated? Listen to Nye Cominetti discuss all things real Living Wage and low pay with Wagestream 🎧⤵️
Reducing child poverty has to be a key priority for the next Government having been largely ignored for the last 14 years. Excellent analysis as ever from Juliet Stone but shocking findings and an unacceptable situation.
Incredibly impactful Loughborough University research that should be front and centre of the general election The News Agents
Hugely important work by CRSP on Minimum Income Standards leading on impact Matt Padley AbDavis@crsp Katherine Hill Juliet Stone Chloe Blackwell Lboro Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy Loughborough University lboro.ac.uk/media-centre/p…
📻“Two thirds of children are living in a constituency where there’s more than 1 in 4 children in poverty.” CRSP’s Juliet Stone has been speaking to Chance on BBC Leicester this morning about child poverty in the UK. Head to BBC Sounds for the full interview.
Want to know what goes into calculating the Living Wage rates? Listen to the man behind the calculations. @NyeCominetti from @ResFoundation talks about how they work out what a minimally acceptable standard of living is in this clip from Wagestream's Invisible Workers podcast 👇
This is a great explainer of the painstaking process CRSP go through to build the Joseph Rowntree Foundation funded Minimum Income Standard, as the building block for Living Wage Foundation's real living wage. Thanks Nye Cominetti!
📣 NEW Joseph Rowntree Foundation & Loughborough University Minimum Income Standard is out - the definitive guide to what the public thinks is needed for a minimum acceptable standard of living in the UK today. A couple of stand out things for me:
Excellent summary of our research out today. Huge thanks to Matt Padley and AbDavis@crsp for leading this work CRSP. Join our webinar on Thursday to hear more from them and me. See jrf.org.uk/events/minimum… for details.