Poverty

Payday loans are driving the nation's poorest into depression
Money

Payday loans are driving the nation's poorest into depression

Under 30? You're getting poorer faster than any other generation
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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Under 30? You're getting poorer faster than any other generation

Beauty Banks and Linkey share the love this Valentine's Day
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Beauty Banks and Linkey share the love this Valentine's Day

Meet the social enterprise making period poverty history
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Meet the social enterprise making period poverty history

Shocking new report shines light on growing child poverty scandal
Child poverty
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Shocking new report shines light on growing child poverty scandal

Work of British Muslim charities is underestimated, say MPs
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Work of British Muslim charities is underestimated, say MPs

700,000 more children and pensioners living in poverty, says charity
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700,000 more children and pensioners living in poverty, says charity

Scotland aims to end child poverty with new "historic" bill
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Scotland aims to end child poverty with new "historic" bill

Benefit cuts leave poorest exposed in future recessions says IFS
The Big Issue
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Benefit cuts leave poorest exposed in future recessions says IFS

Muhammad Yunus: My plan for a world without poverty
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Muhammad Yunus: My plan for a world without poverty

Funeral poverty protestors call for rise in emergency fund
News

Funeral poverty protestors call for rise in emergency fund

How the fintech revolution is breaking down financial exclusion
Woman with QR code for electricity bill
Money

How the fintech revolution is breaking down financial exclusion

Soup kitchen to offer world’s first mental health drop-in centre
Health

Soup kitchen to offer world’s first mental health drop-in centre

John Bird: With useless friends, the poor will always fall prey to the wolves
John Bird

John Bird: With useless friends, the poor will always fall prey to the wolves

John Bird: We must move on from Dickens-style sentimental poverty
John Bird

John Bird: We must move on from Dickens-style sentimental poverty

UK needs radical change to address inequality, experts say
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UK needs radical change to address inequality, experts say

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Poverty in coastal communities getting worse, study finds
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Poverty in coastal communities getting worse, study finds

UK funeral poverty hits record high
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UK funeral poverty hits record high

Period poverty: Innovative bill could make sanitary products free
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Period poverty: Innovative bill could make sanitary products free

Monica Lennon: How I'll make period poverty history
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Monica Lennon: How I'll make period poverty history