New data from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation reveals the extent of poverty in families
Inequality
The debt mountain according to the latest official figures is now a billion pounds higher than at the start of the pandemic, reports Chaminda Jayanetti
The NHS is being burdened by the scale of Britain’s health inequalities, reports Sam Bright
Starmer dislikes ‘constraint’ of Parliament and prefers speaking to people, while he likes obnoxious and anti-feminist hack Piers Morgan more than former party leader with whom he laughed and joked, then sabotaged. Does he actually listen to himself? Keir Starmer has told journalists that he likes Davos – the luxury playground get-together of billionaires, corporations […]
Money promised to deprived areas after Brexit is instead being used to deal with the aftershocks of leaving the EU, reports Sam Bright
An exclusive investigation by Sian Norris reveals the 'national disgrace' of council tenants struggling with mould
Therese Coffey mentioned challenging times twice in the Commons debate on Thursday last. That the times are so challenging is, in large part, a result of the government itself, which, having, entirely unnecessarily, denuded the state of investment since 2010, is creating the vast majority of the ongoing and everyday challenges for its own people.... Read more
New data shows the number of people going without food has increased by 100% since before the pandemic, with health outcomes for the poorest households worsening
[The] method to the madness is the fact that we do need austerity to enforce a certain organisation of society which is a classist organisation based on wage labor and …
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I am currently writing a report for Employment and Social Development Canada looking at the long-term impact of the current recession on homelessness. It should be ready by early November. In the meantime, a teaser blog post I’ve just written on the same topic is available here.