Jackie Long
Child poverty: rhetoric and reality
While ministers wring their hands about the official definition of poverty, low-paid workers are embarrassed and isolated.
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Saudi Arabian border guards accused of killing hundreds of migrants in new report
Saudi Arabian border guards have been accused of killing hundreds of migrants as they tried to cross the border from Yemen – with one person telling the Human Rights Watch group that they were “fired on like rain”.
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Labour’s Debbie Abrahams: ‘Poverty is getting worse’
Debbie Abrahams. the Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, and Ed Davies, who’s policy director at the Conservative-leaning think tank, the Centre for Social Justice, discuss the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s findings on poverty.
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Rise in number of children and pensioners in relative poverty, says report
Hundreds of thousands of children and older people have been plunged into poverty in the past four years. That’s according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, who found almost 400,000 more children, and 300,000 more pensioners, were living in relative poverty, unable to afford what the average person can. That’s the first sustained increases for 20 years. But…
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Poverty ‘neglected’ in party manifestos
There’s one issue you won’t have heard much of in this campaign and that’s poverty.
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FactCheck: is inequality really getting worse?
Shock statistics suggest the gap between rich and poor is becoming ever more extreme. But what does the evidence really show?
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Jackie Long
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FactCheck: is the government starving the poor?
Bishops think there is a link between food poverty and government welfare reforms. But what is the hard evidence?
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FactCheck: Why IDS can’t make guarantees on homelessness
Charities have warned that thousands could become homeless when the government introduces a cap on benefits. Iain Duncan Smith says the public don’t understand the definition of homelessness and has given his guarantee that people won’t be left without a home to go to. FactCheck investigates.
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Faisal Islam
Big Squeeze ‘coming to an end’ says BoE governor
The poverty projections released by the IFS and the Joseph Rowntree Trust today are pretty shocking. They are well-covered elsewhere. I would point to two things. One in four children are set to be living in absolute poverty by 2020. The Coalition inherited about one in six children in absolute poverty. the Government’s target under…
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Matt Frei
Living in a Dream world – and poverty
Washington correspondent Matt Frei reflects on shocking levels of poverty in the richest nation of earth.
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Gary Gibbon
Britain in 2011: people in work can’t feed themselves?
Gary Gibbon finds the shocking truth that there are thousands of people living in food poverty across the UK.
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Faisal Islam
Difficult promises on poverty for the coalition
Faisal Islam blogs on the difficulties the coalition government faces with tackling poverty.
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CutsCheck: Mortgage interest payment help – the quiet cut
People who get government help to pay their mortgage interest are going to see that help cut by half from October 1st. It may save £15m but who’s it going to hit the hardest?
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Lib Dem Manifesto 2010: planes, poverty & footballs
The Liberal Democrats could be the deciding party in the next election. Their manifesto gets the FactCheck treatment.
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FactCheck: dodgy claims of 2009
A quick one from the archive: we cast our eye back over some of the most dubious statements made by politicians of all kinds last year, as debunked by FactCheck. Miscounting Gurkhas “What I can’t do, which is what some are asking me to do but the judge did not, is to grant every Gurkha…