Poverty

Letters: How many more people with learning difficulties will be abused and scapegoated?
Letters

Letters: How many more people with learning difficulties will be abused and scapegoated?

I couldn't afford to fix my broken bed. People in poverty like me need help with the essentials
Gloria Odhi
Gloria Odhi

I couldn't afford to fix my broken bed. People in poverty like me need help with the essentials

Two-child benefit cap is 'punishing' working families, Labour warned ahead of child poverty strategy
Three children
Child poverty

Two-child benefit cap is 'punishing' working families, Labour warned ahead of child poverty strategy

This 'life-changing' project is transforming the bedrooms of children living in poverty
Child bedroom before and after
Child poverty

This 'life-changing' project is transforming the bedrooms of children living in poverty

Happy birthday, Big Issue. Our work continues
John Bird

Happy birthday, Big Issue. Our work continues

Everyone thinks pensioners are rich. But I'm forced to choose between heating and eating
pensioner
Pensioner poverty

Everyone thinks pensioners are rich. But I'm forced to choose between heating and eating

Single people must earn at least £30,500 per year to live well in the UK
woman in supermarket
Living standards

Single people must earn at least £30,500 per year to live well in the UK

Revealed: Millions of disabled people went to a food bank last year as Labour plotted benefit cuts
A Trussell food bank worker sorting food parcels. Image: Dan Prince
Food banks

Revealed: Millions of disabled people went to a food bank last year as Labour plotted benefit cuts

Therapists shouldn't all be white and middle class. We need more from marginalised backgrounds
Image of man on therapy couch
Andrea San Pedro-Lunn

Therapists shouldn't all be white and middle class. We need more from marginalised backgrounds

Shoe Aid, STEPPING UP for footwear Poverty this September
Social Justice

Shoe Aid, STEPPING UP for footwear Poverty this September

I have arthritis, incontinence and other chronic health conditions. The DWP didn't think I needed PIP
Composite image of PIP recipient Ron Farrington and secretary of state for work and pensions Liz Kendall
Disability benefits

I have arthritis, incontinence and other chronic health conditions. The DWP didn't think I needed PIP

My hiatus from work led to some new ideas around poverty prevention
John Bird

My hiatus from work led to some new ideas around poverty prevention

Millions of pupils missing school due to hygiene poverty: 'We have reinvented a Victorian problem'
Image of parent washing child's hands in a sink
Hygiene poverty

Millions of pupils missing school due to hygiene poverty: 'We have reinvented a Victorian problem'

'I was homeless at 16': DJ Charlie Sloth on rough sleeping and living in poverty as a young father
Homelessness

'I was homeless at 16': DJ Charlie Sloth on rough sleeping and living in poverty as a young father

Five-week universal credit wait for claimants is a baffling own goal – here's the proof
looking down on a table that has a notebook open on it alongside a pen, calculator and an apple // housing benefit
Juliette Flach

Five-week universal credit wait for claimants is a baffling own goal – here's the proof

I've had to appeal every single one of my PIP claims – the system is in dire need of improvement
Images of Lydia Thomas, a 32-year-old from Kent who receives PIP
Benefits

I've had to appeal every single one of my PIP claims – the system is in dire need of improvement

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Labour MP Ian Byrne: 'We need to stop making political decisions which are suicidal on the doorstep'
Labour MP Ian Byrne
Politics

Labour MP Ian Byrne: 'We need to stop making political decisions which are suicidal on the doorstep'

I reached out to a food bank after losing everything – it changed my life forever
Hugh McNeill

I reached out to a food bank after losing everything – it changed my life forever

Keir Starmer, it's time to face facts and end the two-child limit on benefits
keir starmer
Child poverty

Keir Starmer, it's time to face facts and end the two-child limit on benefits

Racism is hardwired into our housing system – trust me, I know
Kim Johnson
Kim Johnson MP

Racism is hardwired into our housing system – trust me, I know