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Feb 4 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
A thread on the power of insight to drive change 🧵👇

Last week, as a result of @BootstrapCook's campaign on rising food prices faced by those on a low income, the @ONS restarted the publication of inflation rates by income bands
The power of her intervention was that she’d unearthed a genuinely powerful and original insight, with real implications

We’re thinking hard at JRF about the greater contribution we can make to enhancing insight about poverty
independent.co.uk/life-style/jac…
More specifically, we’re doing so by starting with an ‘infrastructure’ mindset: asking how, as an independent foundation, JRF can enable and open up the generation and use of insight to support social change
How we can enhance general purpose data, tools and software and help guide action and catalyse demands for change in response?

How can we make that infrastructure widely and easily accessible, through open source, platform and ‘public good’ principles?
To help us work that out we’re recruiting to a vital new role in JRF – Associate Director of Insight and Analysis – to take up this challenge, as well as to lead our analytical team
jrf.org.uk/job-vacancy/gr…
The importance of insight has a long heritage at JRF.

We were founded in response to Seebohm Rowntree’s seminal study exposing the scale, nature and causes of poverty in York at the start of the 20th century.

We want to honour that heritage and update it for today
You can read more about the avenues we are keen to explore as part of this work in this blog by @GraemeCooke3
jrf.org.uk/blog/help-jrf-…
We'd also welcome feedback on this proposition and to connect with people already focused on these questions ✍️

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📣JRF responds to today’s announcements on energy costs and the cost of living 🧵

@KatieSchmuecker said:

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Jan 21
💬 Welcome to JRF’s #AskAnAnalyst Q&A session 💬

Our analysts will be answering your questions on the data behind our #UKPoverty2022 report.

You can read the report in full, here: jrf.org.uk/report/uk-pove…
First up we have a question from @Thomas_WilsonUK on pensioner poverty 👇 We also received a similar question from Ellie Gaddes from @IndependentAge

.@GemmaSchwendel's answer:

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This year’s #UKPoverty2022 report is designed to act as the ultimate reference document for the complete picture of poverty across all its characteristics and impacts.

Here, JRF analysts share the latest data from the areas of the report they have worked on

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First up, @J_Elliott94 on housing and poverty 👇🏠
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Jan 19
OUT NOW: Our #UKPoverty2022 report paints a picture of better prospects for some, but for others poverty is proving deep and persistent.

We must turn back the tide and offer security for the many people experiencing hardship across the UK.

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The findings of our latest report paint a stark picture of the state of the nation going into the pandemic, with rising child and pensioner poverty, and very high poverty rates for larger families and single-parent families, as well as Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Black families 📈
While we don’t yet have the official poverty data for the pandemic period, we know that the impacts of the pandemic were very uneven.

During the pandemic, people on the lowest incomes were most likely to see their earnings reduced if they were working and to get into debt 💷
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