Poverty

Missing one council tax payment can cost more than £2,000
Social Justice

Missing one council tax payment can cost more than £2,000

Children on free schools meals twice as likely to be unemployed later in life
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Children on free schools meals twice as likely to be unemployed later in life

Britain’s secret shame: Funeral poverty and the crippling cost of dying
Social Justice

Britain’s secret shame: Funeral poverty and the crippling cost of dying

Benefits freeze and Brexit uncertainty continues to leave families on brink
Social Justice

Benefits freeze and Brexit uncertainty continues to leave families on brink

Rutger Bregman: ‘Poverty is not a personality defect. We need a basic income’
Social Justice

Rutger Bregman: ‘Poverty is not a personality defect. We need a basic income’

Are foodbanks making Britain’s hunger crisis worse?
Social Justice

Are foodbanks making Britain’s hunger crisis worse?

Deprived children are going hungry after missing out on school dinners
Social Justice

Deprived children are going hungry after missing out on school dinners

Utopian realist Rutger Bregman capsizes our preconceptions on poverty
Social Justice

Utopian realist Rutger Bregman capsizes our preconceptions on poverty

Dundee is becoming the UK’s first real living wage city
Social Justice

Dundee is becoming the UK’s first real living wage city

More than a million carers and cleaners are suffering in-work poverty
Social Justice

More than a million carers and cleaners are suffering in-work poverty

What is relative poverty?
Social Justice

What is relative poverty?

A Stirling cinema is asking customers to only pay what they can afford
Social Justice

A Stirling cinema is asking customers to only pay what they can afford

Child poverty in the UK will hit a record high in 2019
Social Justice

Child poverty in the UK will hit a record high in 2019

A lack of public transport is keeping Britain’s poorest away from nature
Social Justice

A lack of public transport is keeping Britain’s poorest away from nature

Rural cash machines will receive a ‘super premium’ to stay open
Money

Rural cash machines will receive a ‘super premium’ to stay open

Parliament holds first 2019 debate on Philip Alston’s UN poverty report
Social Justice

Parliament holds first 2019 debate on Philip Alston’s UN poverty report

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Household debt is now higher than it was in the 2008 financial crisis
Money

Household debt is now higher than it was in the 2008 financial crisis

Britain is ‘sleepwalking’ into a cashless society that could exclude millions
Money

Britain is ‘sleepwalking’ into a cashless society that could exclude millions

The FCA is cracking down on overdraft fees to protect vulnerable customers
Money

The FCA is cracking down on overdraft fees to protect vulnerable customers

Paul McNamee: The will of the people? Not to live in poverty
Opinion

Paul McNamee: The will of the people? Not to live in poverty