The British government’s policies of austerity are directly linked to a rise in poverty in the United Kingdom, a United Nations expert said in a scathing report Friday after a two-week fact-finding ...
Submitted by BRITISH GAS PLC. The programme, here to HELP, led by British Gas, pulls together previously fragmented efforts to combat household poverty. It will target half a million of Britain’s ...
The latest outrage in Britain is that child poverty is increasing. Or at least that is what we are being told, that this is an outrage. The truth being a little more simple, which is that we are not ...
A report commissioned by the charity Save the Children documents a sharp rise in the number of children living in “severe poverty” between 2004 and 2008. According to the report by the New Policy ...
The UK has the fourth highest child mortality rate, third worst relative poverty and lowest funded health care in the Western world, new research concludes. The study did present some good news, as ...
Poverty costs the U.K. taxpayer £78 billion a year in additional public service spending and lost taxes, according to a report. The research, commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, estimated ...
A report by Independent Age, a charity for the elderly, reveals that 1.6 million older people live in poverty in the UK, with an increasing proportion of them over 75 years of age. Around 950,000 or ...
It’s the season for charitable giving. And far too many Americans, particularly children, need that charity. Scenes of a devastated New Orleans reminded us that many of our fellow citizens remain poor ...
A little-known charity has been helping out destitute British people in France for nearly 200 years. If the causes of poverty were once wars and revolutions, now it's more likely to be a house ...
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