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May 1, 2017

Hard work and Theresa May

In the UK today, hard work is no guarantee against poverty. People in some of the most vital and demanding jobs have the lowest incomes - and they may be about to get lower.
April 6, 2017

Changes to Universal Credit needed says Joseph Rowntree Fund

The independent Joseph Rowntree Foundation says reform of the benefit system is necessary and Universal Credit remains the right thing to do. But it warns in a new briefing that a number of crucial changes are needed to ensure the reform tackles poverty and boosts living standards for low income families.
April 5, 2017

Churches condemn Government’s new two-child benefit limit

From tomorrow,, the Government's flagship benefit, Universal Credit, will not offer help to the third or subsequent children in a family. This fundamentally changes the benefit system so that it "deliberately ignores" the needs of some of the UK's more vulnerable children, say leaders of four UK churches.
January 6, 2017

Poverty charity reports surge in requests for help

The poverty charity Turn2us has reported a surge in requests for help in the period immediately following Christmas.
December 7, 2016

New report shows in-work poverty at record high

An annual state of the nation report, Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion, written for the independent Joseph Rowntree Foundation by the New Policy Institute, has found that 13.5 million people, 21 per cent of the 2016, UK’s population, are living in poverty.
October 23, 2016

UK hunger – the worst is yet to come if we don't act

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October 18, 2016

Stop trying to fix poor people – fix poverty

The news that the Troubled Families scheme
June 15, 2016

Three-quarters of benefit claimants worried about welfare changes

New research by the national charity Turn2us has found that almost three-quarters (73 per cent) of low income households claiming means-tested benefits are worried about future changes to the welfare system.
April 12, 2016

Stephen Crabb's speech

When Stephen Crabb replaced Iain Duncan Smith as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, it was an opportunity to hope for a different approach, and a change of direction from the DWP. Alth
December 30, 2015

Creating poverty behind a veil of rhetoric

Government ministers often talk about 'hard' and 'soft' power, usually in the context of foreign policy, where soft power is diplomacy and hard power is military.