🚨NEW RESEARCH🚨

In partnership with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, we have developed an innovative method of social media listening to shed light on the experiences of people living in financial hardship.

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'This system is rigged': Fascinating @demos research on how people who are living in poverty are talking about it online.

It shows up all the fault lines in the benefits system and the growing distrust in the state by Sophia Knight, with Joseph Rowntree Foundation

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After being repeatedly watered down the Renters (Reform) Bill prioritises placating landlords and backbenchers over strengthening tenants’ rights

🗓️ Today Peers in the House of Lords have the chance to begin amending the Bill so it actually gives renters the protection they need

If the NRLA - National Residential Landlords Association is serious about tackling homelessness they would support amendments to the Renters (Reform) Bill to:

- Offer tenants 2 years of stability before no-fault grounds could be used.
- Extend notice periods, so evicted tenants have more time to find a new home.

Latest Centre for Young Lives report shows schools, with the right support, can help tackle the impact of poverty 🔽

🏫 But we also need to take the pressure off schools by reducing poverty - with good jobs, affordable homes and a stronger social security system

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🗣️ 'Today's fragile labour market figures serve as a reality check to those celebrating the end of a technical recession,' says our Director and Chief Economist Alfie Stirling.

This morning's Office for National Statistics (ONS) statistics:

📈 Unemployment up in Q1
🟰 Real wages barely higher than Aug 2023