The past five years of a near-continuous cost of living crisis have caused the real incomes of typical working-age households to fall rather than grow, leaving them £2,900 (7.9 per cent) worse off ...

For all the new Prime Minister’s positive vibes, conflict in the Middle East has driven up inflation and prompted a retreat from sovereign debt in financial markets that has increased borrowing costs, ...

Households across Britain have spent most of the 2020s stuck in a cost of living crunch. With inflation rising again, and the energy price cap forecast to rise to over £2,000 this winter, personal ...

This briefing note takes stock of five years of successive cost of living crises, examining how the surge in prices since 2021 has hit household incomes, finances and living standards across the ...

Local Housing Allowance (LHA), which caps how much support is provided through the social security system to low-income private renters, was last relinked to the 30 th percentile of rents in April ...

This briefing note examines how England taxes residential property and sets out a roadmap for replacing Council Tax and Stamp Duty with a system that is fairer, more efficient, and does not penalise ...

The UK’s post-financial crisis productivity slowdown has been a defining feature of our economic landscape.[1] But changes in how the Office for National Statistics (ONS) calculates the average hours ...

Residential property taxes are now so far removed from modern house prices that Londoners are under-paying by £3.1 billion relative to the value of their homes – with the rest of England over-paying ...

This briefing note examines the transition from education into work for young people and asks where technology can credibly help them navigate it. It is written for the founders, technologists and ...

Ruth Curtice and James Smith outline the potential pitfalls of blanket cost of living support at a time of high borrowing costs and pacey price rises. Andy Burnham came into office promising to find ...

CPI inflation rose to 3.1 per cent in August, up again from 2.9 per cent in July, in line with market expectations, driven largely by higher petrol and diesel prices, the Resolution Foundation said ...

Public sector net borrowing was £8.1 billion above the OBR forecast for the financial year to August, largely driven by higher-than-expected spending and reflecting the impact of inflation. Despite ...