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Poverty

August 2024

  • Polly Toynbee

    Labour is right to ditch the winter fuel allowance – it isn’t ‘robbing’ old people

    Polly Toynbee
    Scrapping the so far universal benefit for millions of pensioners means money can be diverted to those who need it most, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
  • Numerous lit windows in high-rise buildings at night

    The alternatives
    ‘Ultra-cheap energy for every household’: could a different kind of tariff change everything?

    Rising block tariffs and national energy guarantee systems are almost unknown in Europe – but are flourishing elsewhere
  • A white man in a suit bnext to Brazil's flag gestures while speaking at a conference

    Opinion
    Brazil led the way. Now the UK should get behind the assault on hunger and poverty

    Kevin Watkins
    At its recent summit, Lula gave the G20 a chance to show its commitment to real change – and Britain can take the lead, says Kevin Watkins

31 July 2024

  • A woman walks along an elevated walkway on the Falinge Estate, which has been surveyed as the most deprived area in England for a fifth year in a row

    Benefit cap traps families in crowded, rat-infested homes, report finds

    Limit on support for low-income families, introduced in 2013, said to be pushing people deeper into poverty

28 July 2024

  • A close-up of homeless woman Susan, who has her eyes closed and her hand held to her forehead

    Inequality reporting
    ‘I’m scared I’m going to die’: a rising number of Australians are sleeping rough as the housing crisis bites

  • Family Walking Through Winter Woodland Having Fun

    The two-child benefit cap: what is it, does it work and how much would it cost to scrap it?

  • HvH Arts CEO Debbi Clark with children at its summer scheme.

    ‘Will the kids eat or not?’ In Keir Starmer’s constituency, families struggle with poverty

  • Rachel Reeves poses outside the door to 11 Downing Street.

    The Observer view: sticking to fiscal rule will imperil Labour’s future

25 July 2024

  • Small boy playing in a park

    Labour is out of touch on the two-child benefit cap

  • Keir Starmer

    Politics Weekly UK
    Labour suspensions and the Tory leadership race - Politics Weekly UK

  • A woman wearing a backpack looks at advertisements in an estate agent window

    Soaring UK mortgage rates have pushed 320,000 adults into poverty, thinktank says

  • A graffiti sign reading 'food bank' on a wall as a man walks by

    Families affected by two-child benefit limit ‘more likely to skip meals’

24 July 2024

  • John McDonnell speaking in parliament

    Labour will be pushed to axe two-child benefit cap, says John McDonnell

    Former shadow chancellor claims rebellion a genuine point of conscience, not a coordinated attack on government
  • John McDonnell

    My vote was a plea for Labour to tackle child poverty. Its response? To suspend me

    John McDonnell
    Seven of us voted for a motion to end the two-child benefit cap – not as ‘gesture politics’, but to fight for a cause we believe in, says the MP John McDonnell

    • Labour will fail in government if it does not reduce inequality, says new MP

    • By disciplining MPs for voting to pull children out of poverty, Keir Starmer has shown us who he really is

      Owen Jones

    • Overhaul UK benefits to tackle child poverty, charities urge

23 July 2024

  • People walking past a tent pitched next to a brick wall

    Homelessness in England at highest level on record, watchdog says

  • School exclusion systems<br>EMARGOED TO 0001 WEDNESDAY JULY 25 File photo dated 26/01/12 of school pupils. A highly critical report, the Commons education committee have warned that parents are being forced to deal with an exclusion system that is like the "Wild West" and favours schools rather than pupils. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Wednesday July 25, 2018. MPs raised concerns about a "lack of moral accountability" among many schools which have little incentive to keep on students that are seen as "difficult or challenging". See PA story EDUCATION Exclusions. Photo credit should read: David Jones/PA Wire

    School exclusions can impact children for life

22 July 2024

  • Starmer delivering a speech during the opening day of the Farnborough international airshow on Monday.

    Keir Starmer indicates he will consider scrapping two-child benefit cap

    PM endorses earlier comments by Bridget Phillipson amid brewing rebellion on policy among Labour MPs
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