Lalitha Try
Economist at the Resolution Foundation working on improving living standards and reducing poverty
- Reposted by Lalitha TryChart of the week gives you a sneak peak into 'Unsung Britain' – a new book we're publishing on Tuesday. It shows that in the six years leading to last autumn, annualised inflation experienced by the poorest families ran at a rate that was 0.7 percentage points faster than for the richest families
- Reposted by Lalitha Try🧵 New research on decarbonising UK farms and what it means for living standards. The good news is decarbonisation should be manageable and won't cost the world - but it'll still be hard, as farming's in a fragile situation. Here's what we found 👇 www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
- We're almost a week away from the biggest event of the year: The @resolutionfoundation.org Unsung Britain conference, where we'll be telling you all about the book we're launching on the 13 million working-age families across the poorest half of the country. Be there or be 🟦. Sign up here:
- Pay cheque: a word multiple people spent 10 minutes working out how to spell in the office the other week
- I'd been waiting for this day for years and now it's finally arrived!
- Reposted by Lalitha TryThe Government’s Child Poverty Strategy published today is the first we’ve seen for 11 years – which in itself is a sea change. 🧵 👇
- Reposted by Lalitha TryThe Government's Child Poverty Strategy begins to turn the tide on child poverty. As a result, child poverty rates will fall next year – the first time in nine years (outside the pandemic). But other child poverty headwinds remain. Read our full statement 👇 buff.ly/Tnqasir
- In case you missed it, modifying the two-child limit won't reduce poverty by the end of the parliament, but scrapping it will. The first thing any meaningful child poverty strategy needs to do is scrap the two-child limit.
- This is not the time for half measures. @alexclegg.bsky.social explains why the Government should fully repeal the two child limit on benefits, as part of their upcoming Child Poverty Strategy ⤵️
- Reposted by Lalitha TryNew @resfoundation.bsky.social analysis: Any of the rumoured half-measure options for repealing the two-child limit would leave child poverty HIGHER at the end of the Parliament than it was when the Government took power. 🧵https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/no-half-measures/
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- New spotlight from me covering what the latest inflation data means for benefit uprating out now. Here’s a quick summary:
- September’s inflation data shows the annual rate of CPI inflation was 3.8 per cent, the same rate it was in August 2025, but over twice its September 2024 level. This grim news came with a silver lining as September inflation is usually used to uprate most benefits the following April.
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- Reposted by Lalitha TryVery encouraging to read that the Government is preparing to lift the two-child limit as part of its child poverty strategy, but it is disheartening that options short of scrapping it entirely are still being considered. Thread on why this would be the wrong choice for an ambitious strategy:
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- Reposted by Lalitha TryAmid reports that MPs and an advisory taskforce will recommend scrapping the two-child limit on benefits, it's worth noting that this step would be the most targeted and cost-effective way for the Government to meet its aim of reducing child poverty ⤵️
- Some new ONS data came out on spending yesterday, covering the financial year 2023-24. What happened to spending that year, and can we trust the data? Quick thread:
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- Here's some info on today's inflation release from James and me. What is particularly concerning from this data is that last month, food inflation rose to almost 5% - which is especially bad for low-income households, who spend a high proportion of their total spending on food.
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- Surprise ONS inflation data today, showing that CPI inflation rose to 3.6% in June from 3.4% in May, 0.2ppts higher than forecast by the BoE. Here's a thread on what is driving this:
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- New research out from @simonpittaway.bsky.social and me looking at the cost of essentials in Britain. We dig into the rising weight of essentials in family budgets, what that means for life on low incomes, and what the Government should do about it. 🧵
