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Business has a role to play in tackling poverty following the ill-conceived and poorly timed DFID merger

Vital role for business following ‘ill-conceived’ DFID merger

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This isn't the time to reboot the global economy - we need to reprogram it

This isn’t the time to reboot the global economy – we need to reprogram it

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"Today’s excess winter death figures should be a huge shock to the system"

NEA slams record number of excess winter deaths last winter as predictable, preventable and shameful

New figures from the Office of National Statistics today show that the number of excess winter deaths exceeded 50,000 the highest on record since the winter of 1975/76

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"The portal also contains the world’s single largest database of energy poverty amelioration measures"

New energy poverty website goes live

A new online resource is now available to support those working to improve the lives of vulnerable and low-income energy consumers across Europe.

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"Government and landlords need to get their priorities right"

430,000 of the poorest children in England and Wales live in dangerously cold homes

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"We choose to point out that the world needs to address inequality if we are going to end poverty."

Oxfam’s Davos inequality report: Why we do this

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"When a single boy underachieves in his exams, it is a failure of the individual. When a million boys underachieve in their exams, it is a failure of policy."

What’s the problem with white working class boys?

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"A recent report from the Public Accounts Committee found that there were now around 9,000 people sleeping rough and 78,000 families stuck in temporary accommodation"

The man who wakes up at 4am every day to feed the homeless

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"The centre has seen about 100 people come through their doors today alone"

Snow on the ground and a pregnant woman at the door: Inside a homeless shelter at Christmas

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"As we approach Christmas there are thousands of children in temporary accommodation"

Government accused of complacency over rising homelessness

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"The end goal for us is that every school has menstrual products for everyone, and education so both boys and girls know what a period is."

How period poverty finally became a political scandal

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"This is the contempt that far too many councils show for homeless people and benefit claimants"

Contempt for tenants and unscrupulous private landlords: Inside council housing offices

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"He is the author of the problem he now claims to want to solve."

Week in review: George Osborne’s journey from Scrooge to Santa

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"The DWP again failed to give any estimate of how many children would be lifted out of poverty because of the introduction of Universal Credit

DWP quietly drops Universal Credit child poverty forecast

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"What it would give individuals and society is the gift of time"

A universal basic income would transform society for the better

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"Rees-Mogg is not a principled man, he is a man who picks and chooses his religious beliefs to suit him."

Week in review: The likes of Jacob Rees-Mogg pick and choose their religious beliefs to suit them

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"This is about the hypocrisy in our system – a system that privileges the choices of the very rich and punishes the families of the very poor."

While we celebrate a new royal baby, poor families are being punished for having a third child

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"Personal charity that prioritises those we consider 'deserving' of help cannot be and never will be a solution to poverty and the housing crisis"

Channel 4’s latest poverty porn makes entertainment out of a crisis

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"Failings of state support are not limited to Grenfell"

Week in review: Grenfell has shone a light on the failings of state support

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