Participants:

Ben Cooper - Fellow, Fraser of Allander Institute

Chirsty McFadyen - Fellow, Fraser of Allander Institute

Hannah Randolph - Fellow, Fraser of Allander Institute

Abigail Davis - Co-Director, Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough University

Juliet Stone - Associate Director & Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough University

Russell Gunson - Head of Programmes and Practice, Robertson Trust

Time stamps:

(00:15) Introductions

(01:26) How economists think about the cost of living

(07:57) The Minimum Income Standard (MIS)

(12:58) Building the MIS from interview data

(18:09) The MIS and disability

(24:54) How MIS relates to inflation measures

(30:49) What policy can do to reduce the cost of living

(38:23) More on policy; targeted vs universal approaches

(40:57) The Minimum Income Guarantee

(48:34) Cost of living vs income as drivers of poverty

Participants:

Ben Cooper - Fellow, Fraser of Allander Institute

Chirsty McFadyen - Fellow, Fraser of Allander Institute

Hannah Randolph - Fellow, Fraser of Allander Institute

Time stamps:

(0:10) Host intros

(0:30) Drivers of low income

(2:30) Topics in the series

(3:40) What we're most looking forward to

Participants

Dr Hannah Randolph (Economist, FAI)

Prof Mairi Spowage (Director, FAI)

Jack Evans (Senior Policy Advisor, JRF)

Time stamps

(0:22) Who wants to work across Scotland

(3:24) Child poverty and supporting parents into work

(8:09) Why focus on "people who want to work"?

(13:29) How we talk about labour market status

(19:26) Surveys and other sources of labour market information

(26:55) What's next?