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 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.
Understanding the stresses and strains of low-to-middle income families across the country
There are around 13 million low-to-middle income families across Britain today. This diverse group of families are at the heart of the country’s economic prospects, and any government’s political mandate. And yet they are poorly understood – who they are,
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