Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Raising the value of benefits would have been preferable to sending out a string of lump sum cost of living payments to households, according to a leading UK economics thinktank which has dubbed the sporadic cash boosts an “ineffective sticking plaster”.

Cost of living payments are ‘ineffective sticking plaster’, warns IFS

Older workers forced into retirement during pandemic, research suggests

Ric Blenkharn

Radical solutions needed to ensure Generation Z have a home to call their own.

How to make the housing market more inclusive

Report calls for action to make the housing market more inclusive

The York based Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has released its annual report, showing some 13.4 million people were in poverty during 2020/21, including 3.9 million children.
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Quarter of Yorkshire families living in poverty, new research shows

Helen Lennon gives her expert view.

Social housing providers witnessing 'permacrisis' take its toll: Helen Lennon

(left to right) Gavin Williamson, David TC Davies, Mark Harper, Mel Stride, Kemi Badenoch, Rishi Sunak, Jeremy Hunt, Grant Shapps, Therese Coffey, Gillian Keegan, Alister Jack, Andrew Mitchell, Jeremy Quin, Simon Hart, Victoria Prentis, Chris Heaton-Harris, Lord True, Steve Barclay, Oliver Dowden, James Cleverly, Dominic Raab (hidden), Michael Gove (hidden), Suella Braverman (hidden), Michelle Donelan, Nadhim Zahawi, John Glen and Robert Jenrick as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak holds his first Cabinet meeting in Downing Street, London. Picture date: Wednesday October 26, 2022.

"Prudent" decision to postpone mini-budget, but campaigners say certainty needed

More young people are locked out of home ownership as thenumber of those who own multiple homes doubles

Multiple home ownership doubles as number of young homeowners halves

Chancellor Rishi Sunak holds the Budget box as he departs 11, Downing Street, ahead of delivering his Autumn Budget and Spending Review to Parliament on October 27, 2021. He has been warned by economists that the cost of living crisis is set to compound long-running regional economic inequalities. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Yorkshire's economic plight deepens as Rishi Sunak warned levelling up is being ...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak holds the Budget box as he departs 11, Downing Street, ahead of delivering his Autumn Budget and Spending Review to Parliament on October 27, 2021. He has been warned by economists that the cost of living crisis is set to compound long-running regional economic inequalities. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Yorkshire's economic plight deepens as Rishi Sunak warned levelling up is being ...

The Leeds City Region is set to see funding drop, new analysis has suggested.

North 'set to lose out on £300m' as regional economic funding drops after Brexit

The York-based Joseph Rowntree Foundation's deputy director of policy and partnerships, Katie Schmuecker, has warned that more needs to be done to help tackle the cost of living crisis, especially for households on the lowest incomes. (Photo: Joseph Rowntree Foundation)

York-based Joseph Rowntree Foundation warns that millions of households face har...

The York-based Joseph Rowntree Foundation is challenging the Government to build a new generation of social housing to alleviate poverty.

Build back better with this social housing revolution – Joe Elliott

Families in Bradford are expected to be the most affected by the end of a temporary uplift in Universal Credit. Picture: Simon Hulme

Yorkshire to be hardest hit 'by biggest overnight cut to benefits since 1945'

What more can be done to safeguard jobs and employment rights?

Why we need new Employment Bill to protect workers’ rights – Rebecca McDonald

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is under pressure to retain the £20 a week increase to Universal Credit announced at the outset of the Covid pandemic

Why £20 Universal Credit ‘lifeline’ must be maintained – Lucy Bannister

The Government has been warned that it faces the biggest education challenge in the post-war era to ensure that glaring inequalities in education across the nation are not being compounded in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Photo credit: JPIMedia

Education faces biggest inequalities in the post-war era, Northern leaders say

The ban on bailiff enforced evictions ends on May 31

1 million fear losing their homes after eviction ban ends, charity claims

A quarter of Yorkshire's residents are living in poverty, the York based Joseph Rowntree Foundation has said.

Almost quarter of Yorkshire residents are living in poverty, says charity report

Residents across Yorkshire are bracing for more weeks of lockdown

Fears of mass unemployment and mental health difficulties

What should be done to tackle child destitution?

Child destitution is a national scandal; let’s end it – Helen Barnard
EVEN before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, our country was experiencing an appalling rise in destitution. What is deeply concerning is that this rise was not only predictable, but it was also preventable.

Across the region an estimated 270,000 privately renting households across the region are worried about paying their rent over the next three months.

Hundreds of thousands of Yorkshire renters report worries for paying winter rent

The increase in payments was only designed to last a year. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Universal Credit payments could be decreased in April 2021 - here's why

Richmond is one of the places that has suffered the most

Ryedale is one of the hardest places in the UK to find a job

The Government provided councils with funding to provide emergency accommodation to 15,000 rough sleepers earlier in the year. Picture: Yui Mok/PA

'Bold action' needed to stop increase in homelessness as recession hits

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Poorest hit hardest by pandemic - both economically and socially

More than a third of furloughed workers are worried about meeting rent costs. Picture: PA

Government urged to give furloughed workers greater help with rent costs

People who never used a food bank before are turning to them for emergency support

This is how much food bank use has risen, as charities call for emergency funds

The risk of poverty is higher among single parent families

One in five people in Yorkshire now living in poverty - this is why

Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivers milk in Guiseley, Leeds, ahead of Thursday's General Election. Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Boris Johnson must deliver for Yorkshire after low-income voters give him victor...

Hartlepool, England. Credit: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Restore pride in Britain's forgotten towns, charity urges

Post-Brexit UK must prioritise left behind communities. Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Post-Brexit UK must prioritise left-behind communities - The Yorkshire Post says
However Brexit plays out in the coming months and years, there is a desperate need for a shift in political priorities in this country to reunite an economically-divided Britain.

A third of children are living in poverty

One in three Yorkshire children living in poverty

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Many baby boomers predict they will work past state pension age, says report

New research for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation shows how families are struggling to support themselves

Struggle to pay bills revealed in new research

Alan Johnson delivered a lecture on poverty.

Alan Johnson: Instead of blaming poor, we must eradicate poverty

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation says the election should "go beyond Brexit"

Thinktank calls on parties to set out anti-poverty policies

Theresa May has promised to create an economy that works for everyone

'˜Focus industrial strategy on left-behind areas' says JRF

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Inflation could push millions of struggling families into poverty

YP Comment: Poverty remains a big concern

What does the emergence of food banks say about contemporary society?

YP Letters: Food banks and poverty's definition

The scale of poverty in Yorkshire is revealed in a new report

Poverty affects 1.1m in Yorkshire - report

Housing crisis drives wedge between older and younger generations, according to new research.

Quarter of Yorkshire homes failing to meet acceptable standards of living

Is the BBC biased? Tory MP David Davies says so.

David Davies: If we all pay for BBC, then it must reflect our views and be unbia...

Can poverty be beaten?

Julia Unwin: An end to poverty in our time is no utopian fantasy

MP Rachel Reeves

New analysis reveals the threat of poverty across Yorkshire

Brexit vote was driven by those who felt 'left behind' a study found

Top five news stories in Yorkshire you need to know today

The referendum result in June triggered celebration at Leeds Arena where the Yorkshire votes were counted

Brexit vote was driven by those who felt '˜left behind'

Theresa May and her Cabinet will discuss Brexit today.

YP Comment: Brexit '“ time to listen and learn

Millions of people are hampered by poor digital skills

Poor basic skill levels '˜holding millions back'

Skills is one of the biggest challenges facing Yorkshire cities like Leeds.

Mike Hawking: Now let's get to work on jobs and skills

More working families 'are struggling to cope'.

New face of Britain: Middle earners are the '˜new poor'

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is hosting a jobs summit in Leeds today.

Julia Unwin: How business can work to bring prosperity to all and honour Rowntre...

A new study says child poverty is set to rise

Benefit cuts '˜will increase child poverty' - report

Chancellor George Osborne.

Hull and Bradford among cities '˜struggling most' despite Northern Powerhouse pl...

Sir Donald Barron

Respected businessman Sir Donald Barron dies aged 94

More young people than elderly living in poverty, report claims

Julia Unwin, chief executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Budget gap widens despite pause in living costs

New research suggests councils in more deprived areas have suffered bigger funding cuts

Poorer councils ‘hardest hit by cuts’