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Lack of laptops for remote learning is pushing families to the brink
young activists ask questions about their future for The Big Issue Wellbeing Week
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Lack of laptops for remote learning is pushing families to the brink

Free school meals: Food Foundation demands urgent review of Government policy
A small amount of food laid out after being delivered to replace free school meals for two weeks for a child
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Free school meals: Food Foundation demands urgent review of Government policy

Rising in-work and benefit poverty ‘a damning indictment of society’ - report
Site: Images Money @ Flickr. Six million families are at risk of losing more than £1,000 a year if Universal Credit is cut
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Rising in-work and benefit poverty ‘a damning indictment of society’ - report

Ministers refuse to investigate benefit poverty amid free school meals uproar
cans and boxes of food sit on a shelf. children in poverty are being offered tiny amounts in parcels sent to replace free school meals
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Ministers refuse to investigate benefit poverty amid free school meals uproar

Lidl moves before Government to support families with healthy food
Liverpool has become the UK's first Right to Food city to tackle local food poverty
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Lidl moves before Government to support families with healthy food

Big Issue Changemakers 2021: Justice system
Barrister Alexandra Wilson
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Big Issue Changemakers 2021: Justice system

Big Issue Changemakers 2021: Human rights and direct action
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Big Issue Changemakers 2021: Human rights and direct action

Big Issue Changemakers 2021: Covid heroes
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Big Issue Changemakers 2021: Covid heroes

Big Issue Changemakers 2021: Poverty prevention
Cocoa fowler collecting food for his Food for Nought charity
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Big Issue Changemakers 2021: Poverty prevention

UK poverty in 2020: 'No family could have planned for a pandemic'
A young person, seen from above, sits on the floor looking through a stack of bills in front of a laptop
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UK poverty in 2020: 'No family could have planned for a pandemic'

1 in 5 children won’t receive a Christmas present this year
children playing with toys
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1 in 5 children won’t receive a Christmas present this year

Poorest UK families getting poorer thanks to Covid - report
Baby and mother during the coronavirus pandemic
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Poorest UK families getting poorer thanks to Covid - report

Mercy Baguma: Memorial portrait captures ‘beautiful human being’
Mercy Baguma
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Mercy Baguma: Memorial portrait captures ‘beautiful human being’

Five million people to face ‘distressing’ destitution post-Covid-19
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Five million people to face ‘distressing’ destitution post-Covid-19

Nearly half of people using food banks are in debt to the government
Packages of food are lined along shelves and on the floor in a food bank
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Nearly half of people using food banks are in debt to the government

Fuel poverty will kill terminally ill people quicker this year, charity says
A person without their face visible is wrapped in a blanket with their hands holding it around themselves
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Fuel poverty will kill terminally ill people quicker this year, charity says

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Need some Pay Gap Filler? Gender equality charity opens (spoof) online store
A Pay Gap Filler sold at The Empowerium
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Need some Pay Gap Filler? Gender equality charity opens (spoof) online store

Scotland makes history with landmark bill to overturn period poverty
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Scotland makes history with landmark bill to overturn period poverty

Increase in max energy bill rates will ‘force people into fuel poverty’
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Increase in max energy bill rates will ‘force people into fuel poverty’

George Clarke: 'We are on the verge of a poverty pandemic'
George Clarke's Council House Scandal
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George Clarke: 'We are on the verge of a poverty pandemic'

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