Social Justice

Disability campaigners criticise report proposing PIP cuts: ‘Very concerning’
DWP, benefits
Personal Independence Payment

Disability campaigners criticise report proposing PIP cuts: ‘Very concerning’

“PIP is a vital benefit for disabled people,” a report has found. But the money needs to be used more effectively, it adds
What Britain can learn from other countries about reducing drug deaths
a syringe
Dr Kamalroop Singh

What Britain can learn from other countries about reducing drug deaths

We spend all our resources propping up the poverty emergency. We should be focused on the cure
Some donated cans at the end of a table
John Bird

We spend all our resources propping up the poverty emergency. We should be focused on the cure

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‘I feel a thrill of hope about Andy Burnham’s government. I’m not embarrassed to say I cried’
Letters

‘I feel a thrill of hope about Andy Burnham’s government. I’m not embarrassed to say I cried’

The government wants you to buy tinned food to prepare for a crisis. What if you can’t afford it?
Food

The government wants you to buy tinned food to prepare for a crisis. What if you can’t afford it?

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty

Cost of living crisis

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Can Britain actually afford the real living wage?
Hands holding a piggy bank
Employment

Can Britain actually afford the real living wage?

Baby banks are the hidden emergency service Labour cannot afford to ignore
mother and baby at a baby bank
Hannah Pentith

Baby banks are the hidden emergency service Labour cannot afford to ignore

Inside the Big Issue: Food for Good: Open in emergency
Big Issue 1738 cover
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Food for Good: Open in emergency

What could be in chancellor John Healey’s autumn budget and what could it mean for you?
Chancellor John Healey delivering a 'growth speech'. at the Manufacturing Technology Centre in Coventry.
Politics

What could be in chancellor John Healey’s autumn budget and what could it mean for you?

Advice & support

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More children will get free school meals this school year. Here’s what you need to know
child eating meal at school
Free school meals

More children will get free school meals this school year. Here’s what you need to know

Experts issue energy bill ‘red warning’ as price cap rise risks pushing millions into fuel poverty
A person adjusting a heating control device
Fuel Poverty

Experts issue energy bill ‘red warning’ as price cap rise risks pushing millions into fuel poverty

Energy bills are rising. What do I do if I can’t afford to pay?
energy bills
Cost of living

Energy bills are rising. What do I do if I can’t afford to pay?

What’s going on with the Timms Review of PIP? Here’s how to have your say
stephen timms
Benefits

What’s going on with the Timms Review of PIP? Here’s how to have your say

Facts and figures

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More children will get free school meals this school year. Here’s what you need to know
child eating meal at school
Free school meals

More children will get free school meals this school year. Here’s what you need to know

Energy bills are rising. What do I do if I can’t afford to pay?
energy bills
Cost of living

Energy bills are rising. What do I do if I can’t afford to pay?

What’s going on with the Timms Review of PIP? Here’s how to have your say
stephen timms
Benefits

What’s going on with the Timms Review of PIP? Here’s how to have your say

What does the end to the two-child limit on benefits mean for you?
Child poverty

What does the end to the two-child limit on benefits mean for you?

Food banks

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The government wants you to buy tinned food to prepare for a crisis. What if you can’t afford it?
images of fruit and vegetables on cans to showcase food poverty
Food

The government wants you to buy tinned food to prepare for a crisis. What if you can’t afford it?

Mass dependence on emergency food parcels is a ‘moral scar’ on Britain. How do we end it?
Lisburn Foodbank in Northern Ireland. Image: Trussell/ Robert Stothard
Sabine Goodwin

Mass dependence on emergency food parcels is a ‘moral scar’ on Britain. How do we end it?

This is how Andy Burnham’s government could end the need for food banks 
andy burnham at the passage
Heather Buckingham

This is how Andy Burnham’s government could end the need for food banks 

Do food banks need to exist until we end hunger? We’d rather live in a Food Bank Free Britain
campaign imagery showing woman holding up a sign calling for a food bank free britain
Stef Lake, Ronald Ranta and Carl Walker

Do food banks need to exist until we end hunger? We’d rather live in a Food Bank Free Britain

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The government wants you to buy tinned food to prepare for a crisis. What if you can’t afford it?
images of fruit and vegetables on cans to showcase food poverty
Food

The government wants you to buy tinned food to prepare for a crisis. What if you can’t afford it?

Big Issue at 35: How prime ministers have supported Big Issue vendors
Big Issue 35

Big Issue at 35: How prime ministers have supported Big Issue vendors

I have seen the future. People are paid a basic income to escape ‘labourism’
Actor and activist Fehinti Balogun
Theatre

I have seen the future. People are paid a basic income to escape ‘labourism’

Why do people live 14 years longer at one end of Leeds’ famous Otley Run pub crawl than the other?
people on the Otley Run in Leeds
Health inequality

Why do people live 14 years longer at one end of Leeds’ famous Otley Run pub crawl than the other?