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Shipping containers that were being used as temporary accommodation in Bordars Walk, Hanwell, west London, August 2019

Poverty / 30 April 2025

Number of children in temporary accommodation continues to rise

30 April 2025

A person using a banking app on their phone showing the amount of spending on bills, April 1, 2025

Britain / 22 April 2025

Families at risk as more tamper with energy meters to avoid falling into debt

22 April 2025

NEU Conference 2025 / 17 April 2025

Child poverty forcing schools to pay for pupils’ beds and pillows, education leaders warn

17 April 2025

Britain / 27 March 2025

Child poverty hits record high

27 March 2025

Protesters demonstrate as Chancellor Rachel Reeves is about

Britain / 26 March 2025

Reeves launches ‘cruel attack on disabled people’ instead of taxing the super-rich

26 March 2025

Labour accused of ‘balancing the books off the backs of the poor’ in spring spending statement

Britain / 25 March 2025

Living in poorest parts of England can cost you 5 years of your life, analysis warns

25 March 2025

Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a business meeting with t

Britain / 29 January 2025

In work poverty ‘shockingly high,’ TUC warns

29 January 2025

Meanwhile, the Prime Minister walks in the direction of the biggest bosses

Britain / 27 January 2025

Poverty more rife in England last year than in the rest of Britain

27 January 2025

Britain / 6 January 2025

Working families are at greater risk of poverty than 20 years ago, research finds

6 January 2025

Scottish Finance Secretary Shona Robison

Britain / 29 December 2024

Union questions SNP vow to scrap two-child benefit cap on election year

29 December 2024

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Scottish Labour Leader A

Britain / 27 December 2024

Scottish Labour challenged to stand with pensioners, not the Prime Minister

27 December 2024

A man rides a bicycle past Christmas decorations on a street

World / 22 December 2024

At least 32 killed in crowd crushes at Christmas charity events in Nigeria

22 December 2024

A basket of food at the Vale Pantry foodbank in Sturminster

Britain / 15 December 2024

Loneliness fuels surge in foodbank use alongside poverty, new report shows

15 December 2024

Stocks of food at the Trussell Trust Brent Foodbank, Neasden

Britain / 3 December 2024

Eradicate child poverty in 20 years, coalition of children's charities tell government

3 December 2024

RAPID RENEWAL: Changsha’s statue of Mao, the city at night

Features / 3 December 2024

China proves poverty can now be eliminated

3 December 2024

Hunan province’s transformation shows how state investment can lift millions from deprivation — but Western states avoid discussion of this while ramping up military spending instead, writes FIONA EDWARDS

A photo of school girls walking to school

Britain / 25 November 2024

Government must reform Child Maintenance Service to tackle child poverty

25 November 2024

Britain / 25 November 2024

Most of Scotland backs more help for the poorest, new study shows

25 November 2024

Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a bilateral meeting with

Editorial: / 24 November 2024

A cruel campaign against benefit claimants won't solve Britain's health crisis

24 November 2024

World / 20 November 2024

Consultation launched on decriminalisation of rough sleeping in Northern Ireland

20 November 2024

The Trussell Trust calls on NI executive to act on hunger after 35,000 emergency food parcels were distributed across the six counties

Britain / 12 November 2024

Thousands more people dying in poverty in Britain, research reveals

12 November 2024

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer meets with representatives o

Editorial: / 5 November 2024

Starmer plays with fire on migration

5 November 2024

(left to right) Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves, P

Britain / 1 November 2024

Majority of the public think Labour will fail to reduce poverty, study finds

1 November 2024

Finance Secretary Shona Robison at the Scottish Parliament,

Britain / 31 October 2024

Extra cash for Scotland will not scrap two-child cap, say SNP

31 October 2024

SNP Edinburgh South West Parlimentary candidate Joanna Cherr

Britain / 30 October 2024

Former SNP MP to lead pensioners' legal challenge to winter fuel payment cut

30 October 2024

Britain / 20 October 2024

Two-child limit ‘entrenching poverty’, says new study

20 October 2024

A displaced child lines up for food distribution in Deir al-

World / 18 October 2024

More than a billion people in the world live in acute poverty, says new report

18 October 2024

A Trussell Trust foodbank in Blawarthill Parish Church, Glas

Britain / 15 October 2024

Two in five low-paid workers have used a food bank in past year, study finds

15 October 2024

Former Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard uses a loudhai

Britain / 9 October 2024

Former Scottish Labour leader and deputy back calls to scrap winter fuel payment means test

9 October 2024

Britain / 9 October 2024

Hunger and hardship reaches record levels

9 October 2024

Britain / 7 October 2024

Big Issue's statutory poverty reduction targets campaign backed by Scotland's First Minister

7 October 2024

Britain / 7 October 2024

Leading charity blasts politicians for lacking ‘political courage’ to tackle soaring poverty

7 October 2024

Britain / 7 October 2024

10,000 more children will fall into poverty if Labour keeps two-child benefit cap, analysis reveals

7 October 2024

Iain Duncan Smith introducing then Prime Minister Rishi Suna

Britain / 2 October 2024

Former Tory leader says removing two-child benefit cap ‘worth looking at’

2 October 2024

Britain / 1 October 2024

Better targeted support needed to help 7.7m households struggling with fuel bills, research finds

1 October 2024

Britain / 1 October 2024

Majority of teachers witness children in ‘hygiene poverty,’ survey finds

1 October 2024

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson, September 25, 2024

Labour Conference 2024 / 25 September 2024

Labour faces calls to drop two-child benefit cap

25 September 2024

Britain / 23 September 2024

Poverty in Britain ‘out of control’, Big Issue warns

23 September 2024

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (left) and British Pri

Labour Conference 2024 / 21 September 2024

Where is Britain going?

21 September 2024

The government mantra that ‘things will only get worse’ is almost designed to fuel the far right – and grim warnings from Europe suggest Britain’s future direction of travel too, says DIANE ABBOTT MP

Britain / 18 September 2024

Unions, academics, campaigners and more sign letter to Starmer to end ‘foodbank Britain’

18 September 2024

Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills Jenny Gilruth tak

Britain / 12 September 2024

Holyrood rejects SNP bid to restore peak rail fares and ditch free school meal plans

12 September 2024

A general view of the Sizewell nuclear power plant in Suffol

Features / 6 September 2024

The billions for Sizewell C show Labour’s shameful nuclear hypocrisy

6 September 2024

LINDA PENTZ GUNTER condemns Starmer’s willingness to let children go hungry and the elderly shiver while pouring billions into doomed nuclear projects that won’t address the climate crisis

Britain / 29 August 2024

Over 1 in 4 teachers bring in food for starving pupils, poll finds

29 August 2024

A school child during an Early Years Foundation Stage class

Britain / 28 August 2024

Child neglect has become normalised due to poverty, worker survey finds

28 August 2024

Britain / 21 August 2024

One in four fear having to turn off heating and hot water this winter

21 August 2024

A general view of a central heating thermostat

Britain / 5 August 2024

Axing winter fuel payments could create ‘public health emergency,’ charities warn

5 August 2024

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a meeting with King A

Editorial / 24 July 2024

Seven against Starmer stand firm: a turning point for Labour’s socialist wing?

24 July 2024

Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrives at the Farnborough Inter

Britain / 23 July 2024

Left MPs vow to stage a Commons rebellion over Sir Keir's refusal to scrap two-child benefit cap

23 July 2024

Children enjoying playing on swings in a park near Ashford,

Britain / 22 July 2024

Labour urged to drop two-child benefit cap

22 July 2024

Unacceptable for one of world’s wealthiest nations to fuel child poverty, campaigners charge

People take part in a protest march through London, organise

Britain / 22 July 2024

British public want an end to divisions to help tackle key issues, poll finds

22 July 2024

STATING THE OBVIOUS: Russell Trust CEO Emma Revie (left) and

Durham Miners' Gala / 13 July 2024

Labour must act swiftly to lift children out of poverty

13 July 2024

As she returns to Westminster, REBECCA LONG BAILEY MP calls on the new government to scrap the two-child benefit cap immediately to ease families’ financial strain that she sees in Salford

A preschool age child playing with plastic building blocks

Britain / 11 July 2024

Pressure mounts on Labour to scrap cruel ‘sibling penalty’

11 July 2024

A child a swinging on a swing in Liverpool

Britain / 24 June 2024

Number of children living in poverty in working households has risen by 1,350 a week since 2010

24 June 2024

A queue forms at foodbank in north London, March 2021

Features / 19 June 2024

This election leaves Britain hungry

19 June 2024

Millions are going hungry in our nation, but Labour is still not prepared to commit to taking the action needed to address the chaos the Tories leave in their wake, write Dr TOMMY KANE, ALEX COLAS and Dr MICHAEL CALDERBANK

Features / 13 June 2024

Workers in Iran are in destitution

13 June 2024

Despite pledges from the late president that absolute poverty would be eradicated by 2022, the reality is that Iran’s commitment to neoliberalism has seen working people plunged ever-deeper into misery, says JAMSHID AHMADI