The Big Issue10 天
UN calls on Labour to increase benefits and scrap two-child limit in UK poverty crisis warning
The United Nations has urged the Labour government to scrap the DWP two-child limit and raise benefits in warning over ...
Pension poverty is harsh reality for millions being forced to toil their way out of it
The Government needs to urgently cut the red tape that is hampering countless older Britons from accessing the benefits they ...
UK faces surge in hygiene poverty with 4.4 million affected for the first time this year
New research found 17% of UK adults report going without at least one hygiene product in the last six months, with 4.4 ...
Is the UK still a rich country? Report reveals some regions are poorer than Slovenia and Malta
A recent NIESR report reveals that parts of the UK are now poorer than the least affluent areas of Slovenia and Malta, due to ...
Council proposes new plan to tackle child poverty
A council has unveiled a new strategy to "mitigate, reduce and prevent" child poverty. South Tyneside Council has outlined ...
The Sun10 天
Inside ‘UK child poverty capital’ where starving kids beg chip shop owners for scraps ...
HUNGRY kids beg their local chippies for leftovers and growing piles of rubbish litter the streets in the UK's child poverty capital. For many residents of Britain's second biggest city ...
Mauritania Iron Ore train ride through the desert sparks 'poverty tourism' debate
Ever dreamed of living the Dune experience? TravelTok is obsessed with this 400-mile desert train ride, but influencer ...
Institute for Public Policy Research8 天
Revealed: Nearly half of UK children with parents born abroad are in poverty
New analysis finds 46 per cent of children in families with non-UK born parents live in poverty “I can’t buy clothes for my children, I can’t buy them shoes, I can’t buy them a single toy, I can’t buy ...
Econostrum on MSN10 天
UN Warns UK Benefit Policies Deepen Poverty, Urges End to Five-Week Wait
The United Nations (UN) has urged the UK government to remove the two-child limit on benefits and eliminate the five-week ...
Northern Irish government in breach of anti-poverty obligation, court says
Northern Ireland's power-sharing government is in breach of a nearly 20-year-old statutory obligation to develop an ...
Letter: Kendall’s cuts may bolster disability-poverty linkages
This spring we publish the 50th edition of the Disability Rights Handbook. It began as a pamphlet about benefits for those affected by the thalidomide scandal but there is a bleak common thread ...