poverty
Charities slam Rishi Sunak over crackdown on ‘nuisance beggars’
'It cannot be understated how traumatic, dangerous and dehumanising life on the streets is'
Child poverty rises by 350,000 to 4.2 million
48% of children in BAME families are growing up in poverty as are 44% of children in lone-parent families.
The freeze on Local Housing Allowance is only increasing the financial pain for renters
We have called for the Local Housing Allowance to be unfrozen so that benefits are more closely aligned with the rate of rent in an area
Graph shows how badly the Tories have failed working people
UK living standards have fallen behind those of other industrialised countries
Liberal Democrats vote for a Guaranteed Basic Income
The policy was heralded as a 'powerful ambition to eradicate poverty'
A graph which perfectly sums up Tory economic failure
Living standards are expected to undergo the largest two-year decline since records began in 1956-57.