Browsing: Poverty

Bridget Phillipson, No 10’s preferred candidate for deputy leader, recently called the two-child benefit cap “spiteful”. Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, labelled it “abhorrent.…

Child poverty in the UK is now at record levels, with 4.5 million kids living in poverty. One of the biggest drivers of this is the…

A major national survey has revealed a “silent crisis” among Australian families, with nearly one-in-three single parent households living in poverty.The newly released statistical report on…

Downing Street’s failure to tackle child poverty and reduce food bank use is helping to drive public discontent with falling living standards and fuelling a desire…

Ministers face a backlash from Labour-run town halls after it emerged deprived inner-city London councils stand to lose millions of pounds under a proposed funding shake-up…

From 1945 to 1951, a Labour government, struggling to pay down Britain’s war debts in what became known as the “age of austerity”, created Britain’s welfare…

Keir Starmer has said he wants to reduce child poverty by the end of the parliament, as the prime minister comes under mounting pressure to end…

Britain risks a “tsunami of pensioner poverty” over the coming decades unless the system of saving for retirement is overhauled, according to Liz Kendall.At the launch…

The changes the government made to the welfare bill in the face of a mounting rebellion over its proposals to cut disability benefits will lift 50,000…

The same 11 young women turn up around the clock at the emergency ward of Furness general hospital in Cumbria. The group are well known to…