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Why does everyone keep getting the white working class wrong?
Working class

Why does everyone keep getting the white working class wrong?

Homelessness hit new record highs in England in 2024: 'The system is at breaking point'
A couple in temporary accommodation with a dog
Homelessness

Homelessness hit new record highs in England in 2024: 'The system is at breaking point'

Number of rough sleepers living long-term on London's streets surges almost 40% in just a year
a man with a suitcase walking past a man sleeping rough
Rough sleeping

Number of rough sleepers living long-term on London's streets surges almost 40% in just a year

Legal aid crisis shows how utterly impossible the UK's asylum system really is: 'It's so depressing'
Legal aid crisis

Legal aid crisis shows how utterly impossible the UK's asylum system really is: 'It's so depressing'

Disabled people retiring with pensions less than two-thirds of the Brit average, report warns
Pensions

Disabled people retiring with pensions less than two-thirds of the Brit average, report warns

Save tens of billions in public money by ending hunger – not slashing benefits, government told
Rachel Reeves
Hunger

Save tens of billions in public money by ending hunger – not slashing benefits, government told

DWP payment dates in May 2025: When you will get your benefits this month
UK money
Department for Work and Pensions

DWP payment dates in May 2025: When you will get your benefits this month

Fit all new homes with solar panels to slash energy bills by hundreds, government told
a man fitting solar panels to a house
Housing

Fit all new homes with solar panels to slash energy bills by hundreds, government told

Are landlords really selling up? Number of new homes available for rent, revealed by Rightmove
a landlord's hand holding keys on a stairway
RENTING

Are landlords really selling up? Number of new homes available for rent, revealed by Rightmove

These activists are putting parking tickets on homeless tents to make an important point
Humans Parked Illegally Vagrancy Act installation showing fake parking fines on a sleeping bag
Rough sleeping

These activists are putting parking tickets on homeless tents to make an important point

Meet the seven-year-old boy climbing mountains to raise money to help homeless people
Young River at the top of Snowdon to raise money for homeless people
Homelessness

Meet the seven-year-old boy climbing mountains to raise money to help homeless people

Unions are getting 'more powerful' as young, LGBTQ+ and disabled people eye up membership
Protesters hold up flags and placards at a protest in London on October 1, 2022.
unions

Unions are getting 'more powerful' as young, LGBTQ+ and disabled people eye up membership

It will take 700 years to replace UK's ageing water network at current pace: 'A wholesale betrayal'
Water

It will take 700 years to replace UK's ageing water network at current pace: 'A wholesale betrayal'

Mum-of-two shares experience of 'dehumanising' DWP benefits system: 'It could kill somebody'
Image of Naomi Lihou
Benefits

Mum-of-two shares experience of 'dehumanising' DWP benefits system: 'It could kill somebody'

UK's 'cruel' benefits system is 'ruining lives' and 'violating human rights', Amnesty report finds
keir starmer walking
Benefits

UK's 'cruel' benefits system is 'ruining lives' and 'violating human rights', Amnesty report finds

One in five social workers have removed a child from their family due to horror homes
Housing

One in five social workers have removed a child from their family due to horror homes

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
London councils face bankruptcy over £330m overspend on homelessness
London Councils' Grace Williams holding up a chart in parliament to demonstrate London homelessness funding
Homelessness

London councils face bankruptcy over £330m overspend on homelessness

Widower of disabled woman in bitter, years-long legal battle after DWP denied him benefits
Department for Work and Pensions

Widower of disabled woman in bitter, years-long legal battle after DWP denied him benefits

Migrant care worker left homeless after being 'exploited' UK employer: 'It's a national scandal'
Cardboard and a sleeping bag, on the church premises where Joseph is sleeping
Immigration

Migrant care worker left homeless after being 'exploited' UK employer: 'It's a national scandal'

Transphobia and homophobia are terrible for the economy, report finds
London Trans+ Pride
LGBTQ+ rights

Transphobia and homophobia are terrible for the economy, report finds