Warning 2 million pensioners at risk of being in poverty in Britain

The number of pensioners living in poverty in Britain is at risk of hitting two million, it has been warned. Older people are ...
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Child poverty soars in Britain as working families struggle to keep up

LONDON — Thea Jaffe pushes a stroller up a steep hill on the morning school run in north London. “It’s like Sisyphus,” she laughs, breathless. Two toddlers jostle in the stroller; her 10-year-old ...
WRAL

UN’s Expert on ‘Extreme Poverty’ Is Investigating Britain. Why?

NEWCASTLE, England — At a food bank in a rundown part of northeast England, an unemployed mother and her adult son were having an odd morning. Denise and Michael Hunter typically come here for a quiet ...
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Britain is one of the world’s richest countries. So why do a third of its children live in poverty?

Thea Jaffe never expected to use a baby bank. In fact, she was responsible for referring other single parents from her local community group to the charity Little Village, which provides essential ...
World Socialist Web Site

Poverty Strategy Commission report finds millions “surviving not living” in Britain

A report into poverty in Britain, one of the world’s richest countries, has concluded that millions of low-income families are “surviving not living”, while a growing proportion of the population is ...
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We have allowed poverty to be normalised in Britain

POVERTY has been normalised. Walking the streets of London, it is impossible not to be struck by the number of homeless ...
CNN

‘Britain is broken.’ Dire poverty could usher in Victorian-era inequality

The most disadvantaged people in the United Kingdom are no better-off than they were 15 years ago, according to a new report, which finds a “yawning gap between those who can get by and those stuck at ...