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Poverty

Covid-19 cash interventions prevented poverty – unless you’re self-employed
Employment

Covid-19 cash interventions prevented poverty – unless you’re self-employed

PM warned against misleading parliament over UK poverty record
Boris Johnson told parliament there were fewer children in poverty now compared to a decade ago.
Social Justice

PM warned against misleading parliament over UK poverty record

Boris Johnson warned against misleading parliament over UK poverty record
Politics

Boris Johnson warned against misleading parliament over UK poverty record

What is the Right to Food?
The Right to Food campaign is taking action on soaring food bank use - a problem faced by Brits well before the pandemic.
Social Justice

What is the Right to Food?

From Maggie to Marcus: A history of free school meals
Marcus Rashford launched the Child Food Poverty Task Force to overhaul the free school meals system, including to expand them to every household on universal credit. Illustration: Matthew Brazier
Social Justice

From Maggie to Marcus: A history of free school meals

No recourse to public funds: What does it mean and who does it affect?
Priti Patel ruled out repealing the no recourse to public funds condition during the pandemic.
Social Justice

No recourse to public funds: What does it mean and who does it affect?

Hancock agrees to open healthy food scheme to children from migrant families
The Healthy Start scheme is worth £4.25 per week per child for families who qualify for state support.
Social Justice

Hancock agrees to open healthy food scheme to children from migrant families

Black lives matter: ‘You can’t separate poverty from race’
A Black Lives Matter demonstration in London, July 2020.
Social Justice

Black lives matter: ‘You can’t separate poverty from race’

'Clear majority' of British public backs universal credit increase
A majority of the public also wants reforms to stop working parents being priced out of childcare. universal credit
Social Justice

'Clear majority' of British public backs universal credit increase

In-work poverty hits record high in the UK
A man looking at a piece of paper with a concerned facial expression and hand on his head. More than 30 per cent of couple households with one full-time earner are in poverty, nearly as high as the rate of hardship for families without any full-time workers
Employment

In-work poverty hits record high in the UK

Child food poverty debate: What MPs should know
Fighting child food poverty means
Sabine Goodwin

Child food poverty debate: What MPs should know

After election rhetoric, Scotland's poverty pledges must be more than words
The Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. Almost a quarter of children in Scotland were living poverty before the pandemic.
Neil Cowan

After election rhetoric, Scotland's poverty pledges must be more than words

Low-paid work and 'stagnating' incomes pushing children into poverty
Adult holding a child's hand in front of a pond. child poverty
Social Justice

Low-paid work and 'stagnating' incomes pushing children into poverty

200,000 people denied universal credit because of their partner’s income
Around 50,000 people were ineligible for universal credit because of their migration status
Social Justice

200,000 people denied universal credit because of their partner’s income

Fight poverty to support people in Covid hotspots, say experts
Deane in Bolton, where Covid-19 cases per 100,000 people are more than double the national average. poverty
Social Justice

Fight poverty to support people in Covid hotspots, say experts

Why PM's mental health pledges will fall short until families have more cash
One in five adults reported depression symptoms earlier this year, twice the rate recorded before the pandemic. mental health
Health

Why PM's mental health pledges will fall short until families have more cash

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Majority of food bank users are disabled in 'abject failure' of state support
An aerial view of a woman packing food parcels at a food bank. Nearly half of people using food banks last year were in debt to the government
Social Justice

Majority of food bank users are disabled in 'abject failure' of state support

These period poverty campaigners want to make you angry
The period poverty film is based on neurological evidence of anger as a driver for change.
Social Justice

These period poverty campaigners want to make you angry

‘I feel like a failure’: Universal credit parents face mental health nosedive
The rise in need for universal credit rose more sharply in already deprived areas during the pandemic than in better-off areas, researchers said.
Social Justice

‘I feel like a failure’: Universal credit parents face mental health nosedive

Put right to food in law to save people and planet, say researchers
Social Justice

Put right to food in law to save people and planet, say researchers