Don’t condemn Gurkha protestors to poverty, Joanna Lumley says
Support Our Gurkhas protesters are conducting a hunger strike outside Number 10 over pension issues.
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Scrap two-child benefits limit to tackle child poverty, report urges
The Social Mobility Commission is calling for a shake-up of the child welfare system and extra funding for disadvantaged pupils.
Reducing poverty ‘best way’ to cut inner-city crime – police chief
Andy Cooke, Chief Constable of Merseyside Police, said if he was given a £5bn budget to cut crime, most of it would be spent trying to tackle poverty.
Government’s record on child poverty has been ‘shameful’ and pandemic exposed ‘gross inequalities’
Schools alone cannot compensate for the “deeply damaging harm” done to pupils by the “cruel” effect of poverty.
‘Poverty shame’ resulting in £18 billion of benefits going unclaimed every year
One person told TLE: “I felt like I wasn’t even treated like a human being" when they claimed.
10 years on from the start of its uprising, Syrians struggle on in dire poverty
While President Bashar Assad, supported by Russia and Iran, remains in power.
Johnson slammed as ‘1.3 million children under five are living in poverty’
“The Tory Government’s been stalling on this for months – will the Prime Minister finally act, or will he leave millions of children out in the cold?”
UK urged to share vaccines with other nations and to put poverty before age
“We think citizens can perhaps talk to their politicians and say ‘Wait a minute, we’re actually part of the world, we think the first priority is to make sure everybody in the world gets what they need’.”
Sunak’s benefit cuts would push 3 million Brits into poverty, thinktank warns
A new study found that returning welfare payments to pre-pandemic levels would drive a further 1.1 million people below the poverty line.