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THE SNP have said there is “still time for Keir Starmer to see sense” and axe the two-child benefit cap ahead of the King’s Speech ...

America’s potential future vice president topped bestseller lists with his 2016 memoir, a tale of multi-generational, cyclical poverty in Appalachia. Nick Hilton looks back on what the politician argued in the book, from his criticisms of welfare to his belief that the working classes ‘spend our way into the poorhouse’

With the end of direct cash payments, poverty levels are moving up.

Campaigners urge the new government to scrap the controversial policy

LABOUR have been handed an ultimatum by the SNP if they do not include plans to drop the “shameful” two-child cap in the King’s Speech this…

Families cannot afford to wait until UK government says there is money to spare to make such a decision

Latinos are the minority with the biggest number of households below the poverty line

The ‘No Food in The House’ campaign aims to raise awareness for food poverty and insecurity across the country

Shoes too small, not enough food to go around: children I work with are suffering the effects of this catastrophic policy, says Ruth Patrick, professor of social policy at the University of York