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No room at the inn for the 50,000 households classified as homeless this Christmas
Rough sleeping is up by a third since 2009
The Autumn Statement confirms that we are on a path of never-ending austerity
The government is seeking to reduce public expenditure to 36.5 per cent of GDP by 2020, a level last achieved in the depression era of the 1930s
What next for George Osborne’s mission to reduce family dependency?
Higher wage floors are nowhere near enough to make up for these cuts
SNP demand powers to call for future independence referendum
The SNP have tabled an amendment that would give Holyrood the power to deliver a referendum on independence without having to seek agreement with Whitehall
Committee calls for urgent reform of funding for disadvantaged children
There are concerns that the money is not being distributed effectively
Nick Clegg slams Osborne’s ‘living wage’
Former Lib Dem leader says the change is designed to trick workers
Three messages for families in 2020: don’t be a lone parent, don’t have too many children, and do work all hours
By 2020 a lone parent will be 30 per cent worse off than they were in 2010
George Osborne taking from the poor to give to the wealthy, according to new research
The average annual amount lost by low paid working households is equivalent to a year’s worth of school dinners
Osborne’s Living Wage will narrow the pay gap, but won’t help the very poorest families
New research shows that the biggest beneficiaries of the new wage will be households in the middle of the bottom wage distribution