Jamie Evans
@jamie-evans92.bsky.social
Research Fellow in UK household finances, financial exclusion and health-poverty interactions @ PFRC, Bristol Uni Geography. Enjoys maps, football and bad puns.
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The Telegraph headline here is plain wrong ("Majority of Britons think disability benefits are too high")
As the article itself says, "Only 11 per cent of Britons believe that spending on disability benefits should be reduced" www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06...
As the article itself says, "Only 11 per cent of Britons believe that spending on disability benefits should be reduced" www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06...
Majority of Britons think disability benefits are too high
Record low level of support for more spending on welfare for disabled people
www.telegraph.co.uk
June 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The Telegraph headline here is plain wrong ("Majority of Britons think disability benefits are too high")
As the article itself says, "Only 11 per cent of Britons believe that spending on disability benefits should be reduced" www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06...
As the article itself says, "Only 11 per cent of Britons believe that spending on disability benefits should be reduced" www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06...
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NEW: A coalition of anti-poverty, advice and disability organisations are asking MPs to vote against the UC & PIP Bill, which contains the biggest cuts to social security in a decade.
A briefing from orgs inc Citizens Advice, Scope, Mind, JRF and Trussell available here
www.ucpipbill.co.uk
A briefing from orgs inc Citizens Advice, Scope, Mind, JRF and Trussell available here
www.ucpipbill.co.uk
Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill -
On Tuesday 1st July, MPs will be asked to vote on the UC & PIP Bill, which contains the biggest cuts to social security in a decade. This briefing from ten organisations including Scope, Citizens Advi...
www.ucpipbill.co.uk
June 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
NEW: A coalition of anti-poverty, advice and disability organisations are asking MPs to vote against the UC & PIP Bill, which contains the biggest cuts to social security in a decade.
A briefing from orgs inc Citizens Advice, Scope, Mind, JRF and Trussell available here
www.ucpipbill.co.uk
A briefing from orgs inc Citizens Advice, Scope, Mind, JRF and Trussell available here
www.ucpipbill.co.uk
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Our latest @financialfairness.bsky.social Tracker is out today, and it shows that the cost-of-living crisis is far from over. We’ve seen an increase in households in serious difficulty and a decrease in those who are financially secure.
June 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Our latest @financialfairness.bsky.social Tracker is out today, and it shows that the cost-of-living crisis is far from over. We’ve seen an increase in households in serious difficulty and a decrease in those who are financially secure.
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How we talk about our social security system matters. Words shape attitudes and attitudes shape policy. We can too easily inadvertently fuel misconceptions and shame.
We're asking all MPs and journos to use @turn2us.org.uk's new 'talking about social security' guides, for a better conversation.
We're asking all MPs and journos to use @turn2us.org.uk's new 'talking about social security' guides, for a better conversation.
Supporting better conversations about social security
Turn2us has published two new guides to encourage more positive and respectful conversations about social security.
www.turn2us.org.uk
May 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
How we talk about our social security system matters. Words shape attitudes and attitudes shape policy. We can too easily inadvertently fuel misconceptions and shame.
We're asking all MPs and journos to use @turn2us.org.uk's new 'talking about social security' guides, for a better conversation.
We're asking all MPs and journos to use @turn2us.org.uk's new 'talking about social security' guides, for a better conversation.
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🔎 Dr Ryan Davey spent 18 months living on a housing estate to try to understand what life is like for people living with debt problems.
Find out more about his brand-new book: cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/2888205-cardiff-university-lecturer-publishes-first-full-length-ethnography-of-uk-debt-problems
Find out more about his brand-new book: cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/2888205-cardiff-university-lecturer-publishes-first-full-length-ethnography-of-uk-debt-problems
May 23, 2025 at 8:48 AM
🔎 Dr Ryan Davey spent 18 months living on a housing estate to try to understand what life is like for people living with debt problems.
Find out more about his brand-new book: cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/2888205-cardiff-university-lecturer-publishes-first-full-length-ethnography-of-uk-debt-problems
Find out more about his brand-new book: cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/2888205-cardiff-university-lecturer-publishes-first-full-length-ethnography-of-uk-debt-problems
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Want a 3yr quali postdoc job leading the UK fieldwork for an amazing international project on how it feels to claim benefits? And also to do important work on benefits and mental health?
Then see this job ad! Closing date being changed to 8th June www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/114985-...
Then see this job ad! Closing date being changed to 8th June www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/114985-...
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Welfare Experiences & Mental Health
www.kcl.ac.uk
May 21, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Want a 3yr quali postdoc job leading the UK fieldwork for an amazing international project on how it feels to claim benefits? And also to do important work on benefits and mental health?
Then see this job ad! Closing date being changed to 8th June www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/114985-...
Then see this job ad! Closing date being changed to 8th June www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/114985-...
Trying to establish if it's just coincidence that I've developed ear-ache while watching Eurovision! 😂🎶
May 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Trying to establish if it's just coincidence that I've developed ear-ache while watching Eurovision! 😂🎶
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NEW: The govt's migration plan once again leaves adult social care out in the cold
There is strong rhetoric about improving pay, but the govt is steadfastly ignoring the elephant in the room: it will require spending more on local govt
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www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/article/comm...
There is strong rhetoric about improving pay, but the govt is steadfastly ignoring the elephant in the room: it will require spending more on local govt
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www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/article/comm...
Adult social care could be a victim of the government’s migration plan | Institute for Government
The immigration white paper makes it less likely that the government will improve performance in adult social care.
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk
May 13, 2025 at 8:04 AM
NEW: The govt's migration plan once again leaves adult social care out in the cold
There is strong rhetoric about improving pay, but the govt is steadfastly ignoring the elephant in the room: it will require spending more on local govt
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www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/article/comm...
There is strong rhetoric about improving pay, but the govt is steadfastly ignoring the elephant in the room: it will require spending more on local govt
🧵👇
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/article/comm...
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Their fundamental strategic error from which so much else flows was their 2024 tax pledge. They've trapped themselves for no good reason.
May 2, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Their fundamental strategic error from which so much else flows was their 2024 tax pledge. They've trapped themselves for no good reason.
Honestly infuriating that it's so hard to find any information online about the candidates standing in my local election. Only 1 in 5 seems to have any kind of biography! And the leaflets we receive only really tell you the party line. It shouldn't be this hard!
May 1, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Honestly infuriating that it's so hard to find any information online about the candidates standing in my local election. Only 1 in 5 seems to have any kind of biography! And the leaflets we receive only really tell you the party line. It shouldn't be this hard!
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Bristol is the only big English city outside London to be more productive than the national average. It is one of the UK’s few clearly economically successful places - but it is still roughly the same size as it was decades ago.
We need to make it bigger!
We need to make it bigger!
April 28, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Bristol is the only big English city outside London to be more productive than the national average. It is one of the UK’s few clearly economically successful places - but it is still roughly the same size as it was decades ago.
We need to make it bigger!
We need to make it bigger!
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you can't spell "tariffs" without "FFS"
April 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
you can't spell "tariffs" without "FFS"
Some positive news 🌞
NEW | Clean electricity surpasses 40% of global electricity generation
Our latest @ember-energy.org Global Electricity Review is out today! ⚡
Solar power is rising rapidly and doubled in the last three years ☀️
A (long) thread on the key trends in 2024... 🧵
Our latest @ember-energy.org Global Electricity Review is out today! ⚡
Solar power is rising rapidly and doubled in the last three years ☀️
A (long) thread on the key trends in 2024... 🧵
April 8, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Some positive news 🌞
"Society's move to cashless payments may have had an unintended positive side effect, surgeons say - fewer children needing operations or procedures to remove swallowed coins."
I did lot of work on cashlessness a few years back - never heard this before. Interesting!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I did lot of work on cashlessness a few years back - never heard this before. Interesting!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Big drop in child surgery for objects swallowed or stuck up nose
Cashless society may have helped, since coins were a common foreign object swallowed, surgeons say.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 28, 2025 at 7:13 AM
"Society's move to cashless payments may have had an unintended positive side effect, surgeons say - fewer children needing operations or procedures to remove swallowed coins."
I did lot of work on cashlessness a few years back - never heard this before. Interesting!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I did lot of work on cashlessness a few years back - never heard this before. Interesting!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The DWP equality impact assessment of its disability benefit cuts is out
It predicts that in 29/30 there will be 3.2 million families – including current and future recipients - who will lose £1,720 a year on average from the cuts compared to inflation
3.8m families will gain on average £420 a yer
It predicts that in 29/30 there will be 3.2 million families – including current and future recipients - who will lose £1,720 a year on average from the cuts compared to inflation
3.8m families will gain on average £420 a yer
March 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The DWP equality impact assessment of its disability benefit cuts is out
It predicts that in 29/30 there will be 3.2 million families – including current and future recipients - who will lose £1,720 a year on average from the cuts compared to inflation
3.8m families will gain on average £420 a yer
It predicts that in 29/30 there will be 3.2 million families – including current and future recipients - who will lose £1,720 a year on average from the cuts compared to inflation
3.8m families will gain on average £420 a yer
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Seeing as we are barrelling towards A Major Fiscal Event I'm reposting some polling I recently did for @danneidle.bsky.social on the profound lack of understanding the public have about tax and spending.
taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/10/26/t...
taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/10/26/t...
The public’s surprising choice of tax increase, and why we should ignore it
Gabriel Milland of Portland Communications has published polling conducted by the Portland research team in early October. Gabriel takes some interesting political conclusions from the polling (and I’...
taxpolicy.org.uk
March 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Seeing as we are barrelling towards A Major Fiscal Event I'm reposting some polling I recently did for @danneidle.bsky.social on the profound lack of understanding the public have about tax and spending.
taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/10/26/t...
taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/10/26/t...
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NEW: People are much kinder than we expect, according to findings published today (20 March) in World Happiness Report 2025.
Read more 👉 worldhappiness.report/news/world-h...
Read more 👉 worldhappiness.report/news/world-h...
March 20, 2025 at 12:02 AM
NEW: People are much kinder than we expect, according to findings published today (20 March) in World Happiness Report 2025.
Read more 👉 worldhappiness.report/news/world-h...
Read more 👉 worldhappiness.report/news/world-h...
Snowing a fair bit this morning here in Cheltenham (after t-shirt weather at the weekend)! Hoping the other horses manage to keep a bit warmer than this one!
March 12, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Snowing a fair bit this morning here in Cheltenham (after t-shirt weather at the weekend)! Hoping the other horses manage to keep a bit warmer than this one!
Really nice, useful chart
As Ben's chart shows, overal welfare spending on non-pensioner households has grown slightly as a share of GDP - but not by much.
March 6, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Really nice, useful chart
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What were the main nationalities of refugees to the UK in 2024? How about in 1989? The answers for some of these years might surprise you.
March 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
What were the main nationalities of refugees to the UK in 2024? How about in 1989? The answers for some of these years might surprise you.
I wish we weren't in a situation where people feel they have to justify UK spending on foreign aid as being in the UK's self-interest, rather than just being the right thing to do for some of the world's most vulnerable people.
February 26, 2025 at 7:08 AM
I wish we weren't in a situation where people feel they have to justify UK spending on foreign aid as being in the UK's self-interest, rather than just being the right thing to do for some of the world's most vulnerable people.
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February temperatures have been fairly frosty, which means continued high spending for those on pre-payment meters.
Pre-payment meter customers will need to spend nearly a third of income on energy during the winter months.
Read more: https://buff.ly/4fqE8aW
Pre-payment meter customers will need to spend nearly a third of income on energy during the winter months.
Read more: https://buff.ly/4fqE8aW
February 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
February temperatures have been fairly frosty, which means continued high spending for those on pre-payment meters.
Pre-payment meter customers will need to spend nearly a third of income on energy during the winter months.
Read more: https://buff.ly/4fqE8aW
Pre-payment meter customers will need to spend nearly a third of income on energy during the winter months.
Read more: https://buff.ly/4fqE8aW
While it's always great to see stereotypes being challenged, I look forward to the BBC and other media outlets now doing more to tackle other negative stereotypes, e.g. around benefit claimants, mental illness and immigration... 🤞
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'I'm not a wealth hoarding boomer - my grandchildren want for nothing'
Money from boomers is propping up the next generation, rather than being hoarded, says a pensioner.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 22, 2025 at 7:30 AM
While it's always great to see stereotypes being challenged, I look forward to the BBC and other media outlets now doing more to tackle other negative stereotypes, e.g. around benefit claimants, mental illness and immigration... 🤞
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork}
www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...
www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...
February 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork}
www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...
www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...