Starmer chaos leaves a million older people hungry as even Labour MPs warn worse to come
When the new Labour Party government immediately went after older people, the Canary and many others warned that their needless ...
Tag: poverty
Two parents working full time cannot even meet the bare minimum standard of living, CPAG finds
A couple with two children working full time on the minimum wage are still £138 short per week of a ...
DWP strips severely chronically ill mother and disabled son of £8k a year in Universal Credit migration
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Universal Credit mandatory managed migration has stripped a severely chronically ill and largely ...
Inequality Street: the charity that’s giving the finger to homelessness this Christmas
Birmingham based homelessness charity SIFA Fireside is rewriting the rules of Christmas with its latest campaign — Inequality Street — ...
One in four households with very young children are in food poverty. Labour has no excuse.
A new report from the Education Policy Institute (EPI) has highlighted that a quarter of households with children under four ...
Labour’s latest admission on winter fuel payment cut is most damning yet
Keir Starmer has said the winter fuel payment cut "makes sense", just as his government admits it will push 250,000 ...
Guardian whitewashes a damning report into poverty for Black, brown, and disabled people
In a stark indictment of decades of institutional racism, ableism, and classism by governments, the Social Metrics Commission (SMC) 2024 ...
The DWP has now stripped over 150,000 CHILDREN of benefits due to Universal Credit migration
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has now stripped more than 318,000 people of their benefits via the managed ...
300 people a DAY are dying in poverty – and they’re more likely to be working at the time
110,000 people died in poverty last year, according to a report from end of life charity Marie Curie, with research ...
Parent’s school dinner debt SURGING by 50% is the thin end of another wedge
A new report shows that school dinner debt has increased by 50% in the last two years. Child Poverty Action ...
The poorest people will be £600 a year WORSE OFF thanks to the Budget
The poorest 10% of people will see their tax burden increase by £600 a year as a consequence of the ...
The numbers are in. Rachel Reeves’ budget will manufacture a fresh cost of living crisis.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves failed to use her budget to address out of control inequality nor to bring about significant or ...
DWP Universal Credit debt deductions is a half-baked half measure
Unsurprisingly, the Labour Party government's headline Autumn Budget plans to address the woeful state of the Department for Work and ...
Andy Burnham just SHAMED the Labour government over the bus fare cap rise
Mayor Andy Burnham has slammed the brakes on Keir Starmer raising the bus fare cap in Greater Manchester. Of course, ...
UK wealth inequality skyrockets by 50%. Neoliberalism is to blame.
The gap in absolute wealth between the poorest 10% and richest 10% of people in the UK increased by 48% ...
Labour’s latest DWP plans are a ‘Post Office scandal waiting to happen’
The Labour government's latest plans at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is a Post Office scandal-scale disaster waiting ...
Half a million people demand Labour STOP callous winter fuel payments cut
Campaigners have delivered a petition to parliament from over half a million people. It calls for the Labour Party government ...
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