Peter Matejic
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@StatsPeter
Chief Analyst, Insights and Analysis, at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation working to solve UK Poverty
How long have you got to live and live healthily? It’s well known that people in less deprived areas live longer. Let’s look at a boy born in 2023 in the most deprived tenth of areas. They can expect to live 10 years fewer than a boy born in the least deprived tenth of areas.
📢 We're hiring a new Principal Policy Adviser to lead our Work and Care policy areas! Are you a visionary leader with the arguments, policies and ideas to address the challenges underpinning poverty in the UK? We'd love to hear from you! Apply here: bit.ly/4sTq807
📉 Before the conflict in the Middle East, inflation was expected to fall to close to 2% in the middle of 2026. Today's @ONS CPI figure for March shows things are moving in the opposite direction, and this is before the impact of higher energy prices hits household bills. 🧵
Regular wage growth in the three months to February 2026 was 3.6% excluding bonuses, down from 3.8% the previous period. Including bonuses the rate was 3.8%, down from 4.1% in the previous period. Read the release ➡ ons.gov.uk/employmentandl…
It's a bit of a myth that rents are constantly increasing faster than earnings or overall inflation - on average, they're not. So what *is* the problem of unaffordability in the private rented sector? And what does this mean for how we go about fixing it? Our take 🧵⬇️
The UK has crossed a line. Welfare spending: £333 billion Income tax revenue: £331 billion We’re now paying out more than we bring in from workers. This is unsustainable.
