Five million people driven into poverty by transport costs, a new report from a think tank warns
Transport costs are keeping five million people (8% of the ...
Tag: poverty
Fuel Poverty Action knocks loudly on the government’s door over prepayment meters
Campaign group Fuel Poverty Action held a protest outside the ...
The North-South divide in fuel poverty narrows as more people in Southern England experience fuel poverty
New data shows from think tank the Open Data Institute ...
Shell’s shareholder pay-outs could cover the energy bills of 6.3 million UK households in fuel poverty – and then some
As fossil fuel major Shell has once again announced obscene ...
‘Brutal and arrogant’ Tories lifting the bankers’ bonus cap has nothing to do with the economy
Rishi Sunak's Tory government has approved the lifting of the ...
The Tories have presided over a 148% increase in destitution – with the DWP being the main problem
Successive Conservative governments have presided over a 148% increase in ...
The Tories are making a mockery of the aid budget – either spending it in the UK, Ukraine, or India’s beauty salons
Two new reports have revealed just what a mess the ...
Tory minister no-showing the energy bills inquiry is more proof the government couldn’t care less about poor households this winter
On 13 September, the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee ...
An anthropologist predicted the current failings of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals – spoiler, it’s all capitalism
In part one of this two-part article, we took a ...
New UN sustainable development report finds world failing on multiple global crises
A new United Nations (UN) report has found that nations ...
Victorian-era diseases like rickets are on the rise again thanks to Tory-created poverty
Rickets - a disease associated with Victorian-era slums - is ...
With Sir Kid Starver keeping the two-child limit, Labour is supporting Eugenics
Social media has been in uproar over now-renamed Keir Starmer's ...
People’s Assembly blames ‘profiteering’ supermarkets for worsening child poverty crisis
With the school holidays set to begin in the UK, ...
As UK firms rake in huge profits, one senior economist tells workers to accept their lot
There's evidence that it's not demands for higher pay that ...
Luke Brooks died after the council failed to order his landlord to remove mould from his home
A Manchester coroner has ordered an inquest into the death ...
Almost half of children of colour in England and Wales live in poverty
Content Warning: This article contains reference to suicide. Almost half ...
Firms like British Gas have been breaking into people’s homes since the 1950s
The media and politicians are shocked to find out British ...
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