Tag: poverty

On 10 April 1981, young Brixton residents rose up in response to police oppression, entrenched inequality, and marginalisation. The unrest soon ...

We can now properly analyse the effect of a four-year-old Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) policy. It's caused poverty ...

Healthy life expectancy among men living in the most deprived areas was 52.3 years in 2017 to 2019, compared with ...

A backbench Labour MP has made a video about the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. Its narrative and analysis have shamed Keir ...

A parliamentary committee is running an inquiry into child poverty. And it wants to hear people's voices on the issue. ...

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) welfare cuts have had a "direct" and "negative" impact on people's mental and physical ...

The number of households living in destitution has more than doubled in 2020. That's according to new research. It shows ...

The Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP) Universal Credit is under the microscope again. This time, a survey of claimants ...

Overall, 43% of those who said financial support would have been helpful said they had been unable to access this, ...

The children’s commissioner for England Anne Longfield has warned that if the government fails to take urgent action, one in ...

As we approach Martin Luther King Jr. Day on 18 January, it's important to challenge the dominant narratives that surround ...

In recent months, we've seen a return to right-wing rhetoric that suggests white working-class boys are being left behind. This ...

Kerry Wilks said the teaching staff at her son’s school were ’embarrassed’ to hand out the package she received.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) may as well be trolling millions of hungry children. Because two days before ...

Boom. Bam. You know who it is. Yung Drilly, aka Drillminister – writing for The Canary. I’m running for London ...

Some 1,800 families struggling as a result of the coronavirus pandemic will receive breakfast boxes over the Christmas school holidays.

A short film about a community project in south London during the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has gone global. It's already ...