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 ...
Figures released recently by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) from their Annual Report on Fuel Poverty Statistics 2011 show a large rise in British households suffering from fuel ...
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 ...
LONDON (AP) - It's reality TV for austerity times. A shoplifter, a recovering drug addict and a young couple barely able to feed their kids are among the stars of "Benefits Street" a smash hit reality ...
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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