Poverty

Gap between rich and poor is ‘making a mockery of democracy’
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Gap between rich and poor is ‘making a mockery of democracy’

A Big Issue vendor visited Birmingham’s controversial ‘poverty experience’
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A Big Issue vendor visited Birmingham’s controversial ‘poverty experience’

Missing one council tax payment can cost more than £2,000
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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
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Britain’s secret shame: Funeral poverty and the crippling cost of dying

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

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

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

Utopian realist Rutger Bregman capsizes our preconceptions on poverty
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Utopian realist Rutger Bregman capsizes our preconceptions on poverty

Child poverty will hit a 20-year high in Scotland by 2023
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Child poverty will hit a 20-year high in Scotland by 2023

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

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

What is relative poverty?
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What is relative poverty?

A Stirling cinema is asking customers to only pay what they can afford
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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
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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
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A lack of public transport is keeping Britain’s poorest away from nature

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

What is financial inclusion and why does it matter?
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What is financial inclusion and why does it matter?

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

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