Media Round-Up: June 2024

This month, news debates focused heavily on social security, with pressures rising on both main parties to pledge to end the two-child limit.

• The i newspaper ran our latest analysis on the impacts of social security cuts as an exclusive, headlining
  ‘Two-child benefit cap ‘pushing women and children into poverty’
• In a Guardian piece reporting on new IFS research that shows that 670,000 more children will be hit by the two-child limit by the end of next parliament if it stays in place, our director Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson was quoted, describing scrapping the two-child limit as “one of the most effective ways of lifting children out of poverty”.
• In a comment piece for ELLE, economist and commentator Grace Blakeley cited our work in which we have shown that women are more likely to live in poverty than men: “The Cost Of Living Crisis Has Destroyed Young Women’s Futures – And Neither Main Political Party Is Doing Enough About It”
• In her column for the i newspaper, housing correspondent Vicky Spratt featured our work on women and housing affordability. We found found that there is nowhere in Britain where it is affordable for a single woman on an average income to buy or rent a home on her own.
• Former WBG board member Kim MacIntosh wrote a piece for the Stylist on the impact of the cost of living crisis on young women – in which she referenced our work on housing: “I breathe and I’ve spent £50”: Why young women feel priced out of the  party”
• We have also appeared on LBC twice this month, discussing the two-child limit and social security with both Iain Dale and Matthew Wright.