Barnardo’s reveals the extent of child poverty while demanding two-child benefit cap is lifted
More than one in four parents of children aged 18 or under in Scotland have struggled to provide sufficient food ...
Tag: inequality
DWP Pension Credits campaign is still a con for countless older people
The UK government has recently made the contentious decision to cut winter fuel payments for a significant portion of older ...
Tax Justice Network takes down the myth that the super rich will leave if we tax them more
Tax Justice Network has documented that just 0.01% of super rich households relocated after Norway, Sweden, and Denmark introduced increased ...
#UniformReform: parents fighting back against extortionate branded uniform requirements
As families across the UK gear up for the upcoming school year, the financial strain of purchasing branded school uniforms ...
Two years on and an NHS trust is STILL failing to fix racism and discrimination
Nottingham University hospitals NHS Trust's maternity wards are currently under review. Specifically, an inquiry revealed that almost nothing has been ...
Sir Kid Starver is back at it again, kicking out seven rebel MPs who want to feed children
Keir Starmer has suspended seven of his own Labour Party MPs for rebelling over the two-child benefit cap. John McDonnell, ...
In-work poverty is a scourge that is nowhere near being solved – yet
A new benchmark – like the Living Wage Employer standard – is needed to enable businesses to tackle the scale ...
Locked up against her will: meet Megan, forcibly detained in a learning disabled facility
Content warning: this article contains descriptions of physical and emotional abuse that some readers may find upsetting. With the police's ...
‘Free School Meals For All’ should be a no-brainer from Labour
On Tuesday 23 July, campaigners, politicians, and trade unions gathered at parliament to call on the new Labour Party government ...
Labour starts as it means to go on: doing NOTHING for the poorest people
The king's speech on Wednesday 17 July was nothing if a direct play to the Labour Party's now-target audience: the ...
The country is crumbling, but don’t worry the King has donned his jewels to speak to the peasants
The king's speech from Charlie outlined the Labour Party's first programme for government in 15 years. Wearing the diamond-studded Imperial ...
A national disgrace: Glasgow’s child homelessness crisis represents a UK-wide Tory failure
On 15 July, news emerged from Glasgow that 3,000 children are currently homeless. While this is a particularly harrowing statistic ...
Energy firms are hoarding £3 BILLION in YOUR customer credit and making £159m in interest alone
Over two-thirds of Welsh billpayers (70%) are calling for energy suppliers to automatically return any customer credit in their account ...
The past five Tory-led years have been the WORST since 1950 for YOUR living standards
While the Conservative Party is crowing about GDP and the fact the UK has technically come out of a recession, ...
General election candidates are being asked ‘what are YOU going to do about poverty?’
All political parties are being asked to tackle poverty, with nearly 5,000 emails sent to candidates across the country ahead ...
The Tories have thrown 1,300 children a WEEK into poverty since 2010
Analysis by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) shows the Tories have presided over a 44% (+900,000) increase in the number ...
‘It’s now not about teaching, it’s about keeping kids fed’: the reality of the UK’s hardship epidemic exposed
New research shows how Britain’s primary schools and GP surgeries are staggering under the weight of hardship as they divert ...
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