Isabella McRae, Author at Big Issue

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Isabella McRae

Isabella McRae is a senior reporter at The Big Issue specialising in social justice. She reports on a wide range of issues including poverty and inequality, the benefits system, disability rights, housing, health, immigration, gender equality and much more. Isabella was a winner of the PPA Next Gen Awards in 2023, formerly known as the 30 under 30. She was shortlisted for journalist of the year in the Scope Disability Awards 2024. Get in touch with Isabella through isabella.mcrae@bigissue.com

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Welfare reforms

DWP plans for ‘welfare cuts’ slammed as ‘utter evil’ by disability campaigners

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Cost of living crisis

Here’s where to get help if you can’t afford to pay your energy bills in the cost of living crisis

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Cost of living crisis

Food bank says people are turning to sex work and taking out dangerous loans due to cost of living

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Cost of living crisis

Food banks are helping hundreds of thousands of UK children to survive, data shows

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Cost of living crisis

Disabled nurse ‘feels guilty being alive’ as her family struggles with devastating cost of living

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Veterans

‘Fireworks sound like war’: Ex-RAF member with PTSD warns of bonfire night’s impact on veterans

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Cost of living crisis

Cost of living: Man says he eats less and feels like a ‘failure’ due to benefits not covering essentials

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Cost of living crisis

Millions of Brits considering suicide due to cost of living crisis, report finds

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Cost of living crisis

Young woman says she ‘unravelled’ when cost of living meant she couldn’t keep herself clean

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Barriers to work

From prison to cakes: The bakery changing the lives of London’s most disadvantaged women

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Cost of living crisis

Where to find free toiletries, period products and nappies in the UK

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Child poverty

DWP plans for ‘welfare cuts’ slammed as ‘utter evil’ by disability campaigners

Here’s where to get help if you can’t afford to pay your energy bills in the cost of living crisis

Food bank says people are turning to sex work and taking out dangerous loans due to cost of living

Food banks are helping hundreds of thousands of UK children to survive, data shows

Disabled nurse ‘feels guilty being alive’ as her family struggles with devastating cost of living

‘Fireworks sound like war’: Ex-RAF member with PTSD warns of bonfire night’s impact on veterans

Cost of living: Man says he eats less and feels like a ‘failure’ due to benefits not covering essentials

Millions of Brits considering suicide due to cost of living crisis, report finds

Young woman says she ‘unravelled’ when cost of living meant she couldn’t keep herself clean

From prison to cakes: The bakery changing the lives of London’s most disadvantaged women

Where to find free toiletries, period products and nappies in the UK

Child poverty in the UK: Latest figures as more plunged into destitution amid cost of living crisis

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