One in four children in Britain – 3.4 million – will be in relative poverty by 2020, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has warned.
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Nov 13
Vulnerable homeless people face an astonishing shift in housing policy
Councils will now be considered to have fulfilled their duty to homeless people by helping them rent from private landlords
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Oct 30
Universal credit will hit low-income families, charity warns
Welfare reform could see families lose free school meals and prescriptions, says Joseph Rowntree Foundation
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Oct 16
Number of UK poor receiving emergency food aid doubles
Figures from Trussell Trust, which operates food banks, show 110,000 were referred for help between April and September
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Sep 18
Freezing benefits would mean an all-out assault on poor families
Government plans to break the link between benefits and living standards would be no less than breaking the link with decency
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Sep 10
In Cameron’s Britain, payday loan companies are free to shaft the poor
Charging extortionate rates of interest, these companies are robbing the poor. I know, because I worked undercover for one
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Dec 14
Exposed: the myth of a ‘culture of worklessness’
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by eJay
December 14, 2012
Extensive research shows that families experiencing long-term unemployment remain committed to the value of work
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