Slow growth in average living standards, but a rapid fall in pensioner poverty, are amongst the findings revealed in a new report published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, which analyses the latest official low income statistics published by the Department for Work and Pensions last week. The report also examines why child poverty has fallen under Labour, and why it did not fall enough for the child poverty targets for 2004/05 to be met.
Authors
Mike Brewer
Alissa Goodman
Alissa is an IFS Research Fellow and a Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies at the UCL Institute of Education.
Jonathan Shaw
Jonathan is a Research Fellow at the IFS and a Technical Specialist in the Economics Department at the Financial Conduct Authority.
Luke Sibieta
Luke is a Research Fellow at the IFS and his general research interests include education policy, political economy and poverty and inequality.
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