Analysis and action on living standards
Recent years have uncovered the lack of financial resilience among too many low-to-middle income families across Britain. In a 12-month project – Unsung Britain, with support from JPMorganChase – the Resolution Foundation will examine who low-to-middle-income families are in Britain today, how they’ve changed in recent decades, and what can be done to boost their living standards in the future.
We will do this by examining their pay, employment and career prospects, who they live with and how they are housed, what their health and caring responsibilities are, the assets and debts they hold, what they choose to spend their disposable incomes on, and their ability to transition in and out of low-to-middle income Britain.
The labour market experience of low-to-middle income families
This report describes the labour market experiences of low-to-middle income families and how these have changed over the past quarter century. It explores those families’ employment, pay, experiences at work, and their feelings about changing jobs and progressing in work.
How lower-income families experience the labour market
Rising employment has been one of the biggest economic changes for lower income families over the past quarter century, with the number of workless households falling by a third since 1996. But while more people from poorer households are entering
The changing economic circumstances of the poorer half of Britain
This report marks the launch of Unsung Britain, a one-year research programme designed to understand the economic circumstances of today’s low-to-middle income families and how these have changed in recent decades, with support from JPMorganChase.
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