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"It shouldn't take a horrific and preventable fire for people to take notice"

It shouldn’t take a deadly fire for us to start caring about social housing tenants

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"The wages are low and I'm on a zero hours contract"

‘They all just screw you over’: Views on the election from a Nottingham council estate

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"Pay and exploitative employment are the real problems faced in modern Britain"

Labour’s plans for a real living wage would be life changing for many people

A minimum wage of £10 will lift millions of people out of poverty

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"Children whose parents were unmarried when one died will receive nothing"

Children born out of wedlock are still being punished by the state

Cuts to bereavement benefits are bad enough but for unmarried couples the situation is even worse

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"They refuse to acknowledge the problems working class people of this country face day in, day out"

Budget Tories out of touch once again

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"We know without any doubt, that cuts and changes to benefits have led to untold suffering."

The fight against welfare reforms must continue – even if it doesn’t change anything

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"There are mothers around the UK who are forced to rely on charity for even the most basic baby products."

The women forced to rely on ‘baby banks’ to provide for their newborn children

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"One in every eight workers now lives in poverty"

The myth that work always pays is finally exposed

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"Just this month the new work and pensions secretary, Damian Green, reiterated that sanctions "contribute to a fairer society."

The government doesn’t care about the impact of sanctions: they want them to hurt

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No amount of immigrant-bashing can hide the real truth that Tory ideology continues to drive people in this country into total despair.

Stand up for fairness, or be divided for good

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"It's easier to believe that the person you pass on the street is on the take than to think about the hardship they might really be facing"

These anti-begging posters show how the most vulnerable are demonised

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"It's time we collectively reinvent the way we deal with disabilities and the workplace"

I’m Broken, Britain: Reinventing welfare for the disabled

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"Next year all families newly claiming means-tested benefits, will lose £10.45 a week"

The cost of a child: Theresa May must reverse cuts to family benefits

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"The conditions there would not seem out of place in a third world country or 19th century Britain"

Rats, filth and cockroaches: What it’s like to live in Nicola Sturgeon’s constituency

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Residents at Boundary House have teamed up with housing activists to highlight the conditions they are living in

Social cleansing: The mums at the sharp end of the housing crisis

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The Labour-run council applied for the injunction after a small camp of around ten tents sprung up in a local park back in April

Labour council tries to kick homeless people out of city

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"A new appeal process was introduced in 2013 and was beset by problems from the start"

The tactics the DWP uses to stack the odds against benefit claimants

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"Migrants in search of work find themselves increasingly vulnerable"

Byron Burgers and Sports Direct are two sides of the same coin

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JRF anti poverty strategy

Working together to solve poverty

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