Category: Poverty

‘Apprenticeship penalty’ on benefits forces young people from poorer UK families to quit

Government advisers call for review of rules that cause loss of household income when a child takes up job training Young people from disadvantaged backgrounds are abandoning valuable job training opportunities because of a...

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Ken Loach revisits I, Daniel Blake: ‘We were asking if food banks are tolerable. Now they’re an institution’

The scene at the food bank, recalls the director, where Katie is so hungry, she pours baked beans into her hand from a tin and eats them cold, came from a real storyIn 2016, we were – as we continue to be – in a time...

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More than a fifth of UK’s ‘austerity children’ scarred by poverty, study says

Researchers say hardship is a direct legacy of welfare benefit cuts imposed by Tory governments in recent yearsMore than a fifth of all “austerity generation” British children have been scarred by poverty for at...

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End to two-child benefit cap offers £300-a-month lifeline to cash-strapped families

From 6 April, low-income families can claim universal credit payments for all children living in the householdThe two-child benefit policy has been described as a “cap on childhood” and as it comes to an end, Claire*...

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UK politics: Trump says UK’s aircraft carriers are just ‘toys’ – as it happened

The comments were part of a broader address in which he condemned Nato alliesYesterday the Conservative party said that it wanted to ban political parties from distributing campaign literature in a foreign language. Announcing a...

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Lower-income families face 137-year wait for living standards to double, says UK thinktank

Two decades of weak pay growth have left poorer households stuck, Resolution Foundation says, fuelling political uneaseIt would take 137 years for lower-income families in the UK to see their living standards double at the...

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Met police launch investigation into alleged Mandelson-Epstein email leaks – as it happened

Files released by US apparently show Mandelson sending Epstein market-sensitive information while serving as business secretaryThe Department for Work and Pensions has named 12 disability experts with “lived experience of...

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Police launch investigation into Peter Mandelson over alleged leaks to Jeffrey Epstein – UK politics live

Files released by US apparently show Mandelson sending Epstein market-sensitive information while serving as business secretaryThe Department for Work and Pensions has named 12 disability experts with “lived experience of...

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Gordon Brown writes to Met commissioner with information on Mandelson-Epstein leaks scandal – UK politics live

The former prime minister said Peter Mandelson’s alleged disclosure of confidential information was an ‘inexcusable and unpatriotic act’The Department for Work and Pensions has named 12 disability experts with...

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Labour’s new welfare changes are practical and compassionate – so why not loudly say so? | Polly Toynbee

Universal credit to rise faster than inflation, benefit hurdles eased, extra help for children and young people … I bet you had no ideaIt’s the good this government does that can make you hold your head in your...

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