The current cost of living is pushing more people into poverty, with almost 68% of low income...
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22/11/2014
Child poverty and social exclusion
The final report into child poverty and social exclusion finds 30% of children lack two of more of the child necessities and that child deprivation would be much higher if parents were not sacrificing their own living standards for their children's sake.
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26/05/2014
Community engagement in challenging times
This working paper describes an experimental collaboration between members of the PSE team, the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland and communities from some of the most deprived wards in Northern Ireland. It's aim was to link local experiences to a national research project and to share their findings via digital media tools, such as the PSE website.
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25/05/2014
Hard times: 2014
The Hard Times reports provide evidence gathered by communities themselves on the impact of austerity and cuts on families and young people across Northern Ireland. Watch the accompanying films on home repossession, struggles with debt and youth hopes and dreams on the community webpages.
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13/05/2014
Findings
CiA Feeling the strain_1
I feel like I am walking on the edge of a cliff and at any moment I might fall off.
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30/01/2014
Poorest groups hit hardest by inflation
Average annual inflation has been 1 percentage point per year higher for the poorest fifth of households than for the richest fifth since 2008, according to a new analysis from researchers at the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
The research findings appear in a pre-released chapter from the IFS 'Green Budget' 2014 publication.
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24/01/2014
Households below minimum income ‘up by a fifth’
The proportion of people in households living below the minimum income standard increased by one fifth between 2008-09 and 2011-12, according to a new analysis from researchers at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
The minimum income standard (MIS) is set according to what the public think is needed for a minimum socially acceptable standard of living in the UK.
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11/12/2013
Poor families hit by soaring housing costs
Soaring energy bills are forcing families to spend more than ever on heating and maintaining their homes, according to official figures on the growing squeeze on household budgets – with those on lower incomes now spending 25 per cent of their income on housing.
The figures emerge from the latest annual Office for National Statistics report on household spending.
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10/12/2013
Benefits reforms ‘cut food budgets to £20 a week’
Poor households are cutting food costs in an attempt to cope with the effects of rising fuel bills, shrinking incomes and benefits changes such as the 'bedroom tax', according to the latest instalment of a survey looking at the impact of coalition government policies.
The 'Real Life Reform' project is tracking the impact of benefits reform on up to 100 households in social housing across the north of England through to 2015. This is the second of six scheduled reports on how the households are responding to the changes.
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07/12/2013
Most people in poverty are in working families – JRF
For the first time, there are more people in working families living below the poverty line (6.7 million) than in workless and retired families in poverty combined (6.3 million), according to the latest annual survey of poverty trends from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
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13/11/2013
‘Breadwinner’ families worst for child poverty
Families with a traditional ‘breadwinner’ model – where one parent (usually the father) goes out to work while the other stays at home to care for children – are now the largest group of households with children living in poverty, according to research from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Category: Reports
