Poverty remains one of the most urgent issues of our time. In this fully updated edition of her
important and widely acclaimed intervention on the topic, Ruth Lister introduces readers to …

Discussions about sustainable consumption corridors tend to focus on private consumption.
This Policy brief explores the contribution that public consumption may provide in …

Punitive welfare conditionality, combining tough sanctions with minimal self-directed
support, is a defining feature of contemporary UK working age social security provision. This …

Since 2010 the UK has enacted radical welfare reforms that have led to greater poverty,
homelessness, indebtedness, and foodbank use. It has diverged from other European …

In this paper we explore whether the recent rise in food bank usage in the UK has been
induced by the roll-out of Universal Credit. We bring together official statistics on the …

Background The number of food banks (charitable outlets of emergency food parcels) and
the volume of food distributed by them increased multi-fold in the United Kingdom (UK) since …

Child poverty is rising across affluent Western societies; how it is measured is vital to how
governments act to prevent, alleviate or eliminate it. While the roots of childhood poverty are …

Estimates suggest that over 10% of the UK population are affected by food insecurity.
International evidence indicates that food insecurity is a risk factor for many long‐term health …

This paper investigates the dynamics of low income household (LIH) indebtedness under
austerity in Britain. Building on a range of political economy studies on the role of the state in …

Drawing on participatory research with people living in poverty, this article details the
possibilities inherent in this research tradition and its particular applicability and as yet often …