Tag: poverty
about 1 month ago
nationalworld.com

HSBC: UK banking business' record profits news, share price, how much did CEO Noel Quinn make - a...

Noel Quinn said the bank had faced 'challenges' in getting to its record profits

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4 months ago
nationalworld.com

Amazon UK: where is Second Chance Store, which items are at charity shop - including books and Ki...

Over 4,000 items donated by Amazon will fill the shelves of the Second Chance shop

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4 months ago
shieldsgazette.com

South Tyneside charity say 'don't wait to donate' in run up to Christmas

The charity is grateful for any donations leading up to Christmas.

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5 months ago
buxtonadvertiser.co.uk

Rising cost of living having ‘devastating’ impact on people says High Peak church

A church in New Mills says support is there to help people who are struggling financially.

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6 months ago
shieldsgazette.com

South Tyneside Council plan to tackle poverty with appointment of Anti-Poverty Strategy Co-ordinator

Plans to tackle poverty in South Tyneside have taken a massive step forward with the appointment of a new Anti-Povert...

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7 months ago
nationalworld.com

Over 120,000 children in the UK are living in destitution, a charity survey suggests

The survey looked at 1,240 frontline professionals in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland

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7 months ago
nationalworld.com

UK government making "slow progress" in improving the lives of disabled people, a human rights wa...

The watchdog says little progress has been made on 2016 report that the government violated disabled people’s rights

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9 months ago
inews.co.uk

‘Conservative’ Starmer faces backlash over refusal to scrap child benefits cap

The two-child limit bars parents from claiming child tax credit or universal credit for any third or subsequent child...

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11 months ago
nationalworld.com

Food bank emergency parcels hit record high amid cost of living crisis leading to ‘pressure cooke...

The Trussell Trust distributed nearly three million emergency food parcels in the past year as over 760,000 people us...

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about 1 year ago
mirror.co.uk

YouTuber's heartless prank on homeless man inspired OAP to bring food to rough sleepers

Former rough sleeper Nigel Hollander, 78, decided to dedicate his time to helping the homeless and in need after watc...

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about 1 year ago
mirror.co.uk

'I pawned my wedding ring to feed my family - now I earn thousands every month'

A mum has shared the heartbreaking poverty her family faced before she started an agency to find child stars – and no...

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about 1 year ago
dublinlive.ie

Cost of living Ireland: Families around €1,000 worse off last year due to inflation

Despite a rise in the median income, it was wiped out by the rise in prices of many items worldwide

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about 1 year ago
inews.co.uk

Prepayment meter ban a huge step but questions over compensation and remote switching remain

There are parallels with the 90s when water companies were banned from forcibly disconnecting customers - measures to...

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about 1 year ago
irishmirror.ie

Mothers stealing to feed kids amid cost of living crisis as one woman is prosecuted for €180 thef...

Gardaí have told the Mirror that the rise in so-called ‘poverty-related crime’ is on the up

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over 1 year ago
nationalworld.com

Zayn Malik demands free school meals for 800,000 children living in poverty

The former One Direction star, who relied on free school lunches as a child, said government support is “desperately ...

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over 1 year ago
nationalworld.com

Value of pound plummets even further against dollar - what it means for you

The UK’s economic outlook is being hampered by record inflation and recession fears, with markets worried that Liz Tr...

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over 1 year ago
nationalworld.com

Child Maintenance Service ‘enables economic abuse’, domestic violence charity warns

A record number of domestic abuse victims are turning to the Child Maintenance Service to seek financial support from...

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over 1 year ago
nationalworld.com

155,000 children missing out on child maintenance payments – the worst areas revealed

As the cost of living crisis worsens across Britain, thousands of children are missing out on vital financial support...

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over 1 year ago
londonworld.com

Cost of living crisis: Government must deliver ‘emergency budget’, urges Sadiq Khan

“We need the government to try and help us with an emergency budget to make sure fewer families experience poverty, d...

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over 1 year ago
londonworld.com

Rail strikes: Government ‘criminalising dissent against poverty’, union boss claims

“It seems the answer the government has to the cost of living crisis is to criminalise dissent against poverty,” he s...

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almost 2 years ago
thestar.com

A prescription for healthy food? Food Rx program gives people access to fresh fruit and vegetable...

“Prescribing food is not something I wanted to do as a health-care worker,” said Dr. Andrew Boozary. “It’s a response...

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almost 2 years ago
inews.co.uk

The UK's wealthiest people added £50bn to their coffers over the past year, Rich List shows

The combined wealth of the UK’s 250 most moneyed individuals and families has grown to £710.8bn, up eight per cent fr...

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about 2 years ago
nationalworld.com

6 grim stats about the cost of living, inflation and energy bills

While the media reaction to Rishi Sunak’s Spring Statement has been roundly negative, the numbers around the cost of ...

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about 2 years ago
dublinlive.ie

Nearly a quarter of 'stressed and guilty' Dublin families fearing food poverty as cost of living ...

Parents in the capital have been panicking as they fear that they might not be able to provide the basic needs for th...

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about 2 years ago
mirror.co.uk

Couple face choice between heating and eating within weeks of newborn daughter arriving

Leonnie Shinells and Jamie Scott from Hull knew they faced tough challenges ahead when their baby arrived but they ha...

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about 2 years ago
inews.co.uk

Poorest households face financial ‘catastrophe’ when cost of living crisis bites in April

MPs are told Government needs to find £2.5bn to support lowest-income households as energy costs set to soar

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about 2 years ago
inews.co.uk

Families set to be 'devastated' by rising costs, with a fifth of Britons living in poverty

Figures from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation also reveal 31 per cent of children in the UK were living in poverty, ris...

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about 2 years ago
inews.co.uk

Teachers worried by rise in poverty which has made 300,000 more eligible for free school meals

The value of extra money given to schools for each disadvantaged pupil they have on roll has been eroded by inflation...

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about 2 years ago
mirror.co.uk

Molly-Mae signs another huge 'seven-figure deal' after controversial poverty comments

Love Island's Molly-Mae Hague has secured herself another lucrative deal worth seven figures, according to reports, a...

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over 2 years ago
mirror.co.uk

Universal Credit cut has already wiped £440million from five million households

A charity has warned the £1,040 a year benefit cut, which comes amid warnings inflation could top 4%, will push half ...

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over 2 years ago
mirror.co.uk

Mum 'scared to put heating on' as energy firm collapses amid £20 benefit cut

Retail manager Tori Oram, who was a customer of failed supplier Green, says families are 'looking at a choice between...

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over 2 years ago
mirror.co.uk

Five back-to-school schemes for a cash boost - including extra child benefit

The average secondary school uniform and P.E kit costs more than £300 per pupil in England according to government fi...

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over 2 years ago
mirror.co.uk

Free school meals - who qualifies this term and how to claim it explained

Eligibility for free school meals varies slightly between England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland because each ...

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almost 3 years ago
thestar.com

‘We determine our food’: How Toronto went from talking about Black food ‘security’ to Black food ...

A report approved last week by the city calls for space to grow produce, sustainable funding for food programs, infra...

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about 3 years ago
thestar.com

NDP and anti-poverty groups call for CERB repayment amnesty for low-income people

“I don’t think it’s going to do anything for the government’s bottom line to insist on these repayments,” said NDP MP...

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about 3 years ago
inews.co.uk

Digital divide: The initiatives working to provide deprived children with laptops

Around 1.8m children in the UK did not have access to a laptop, desktop computer or tablet at the start of the pandemic

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about 3 years ago
mirror.co.uk

Foodbank queue so long 'road comes to standstill' as pandemic poverty laid bare

A recent video from charity London Community Kitchen (LCK) shows Brent residents queuing up around the corner and dow...

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about 3 years ago
thestar.com

Food banks don’t reduce food insecurity, so why did the federal government give them $200 million...

With the Emergency Food Security Fund, the federal government delivered a lifeline to food banks, which were sent to ...

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about 3 years ago
inews.co.uk

Child poverty 'set to rise' unless urgent action is taken, says Children's Commissioner

Anne Longfield said the Covid crisis is creating a child poverty timebomb that could see millions more children falli...

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