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A number of charities have written to Rachel Reeves arguing that hundreds of thousands of disabled households could be pushed into poverty otherwise.

Labour backbencher warns of ‘deep, deep concern’ from colleagues over planned cuts

The SNP have backed calls from a coalition of organisations urging the UK Government to scrap the two-child benefit cap...

Immigration status is denying children equal access to early years education and pushing families ‘deeper into poverty’

A TOP United Nations committee has urged the UK Government to bin austerity welfare policies like the two-child cap.

The First Minister said such a move could endanger his drive to eradicate child poverty.

Over half of Canadians feel “financially paralyzed” by the cost-of-living crisis, according to a recent poll. As life becomes more unaffordable for more people, we need governments to create policies that will improve public health and well-being.

While millions live with regular blackouts and limited energy, plants are being built to satisfy the global demand for digital storage and processing – piling pressure on an already fragile system

Neither of the Legislature’s voucher bills require private schools to accept certain students, which some warn could block the neediest children from access.

There are doubts as to whether Nigerian president Bola Tinubu’s N54.99 trillion (US$36.6 billion) 2025 budget will lay a solid foundation for addressing some of the country’s current economic challenges.

Nunavut has the highest rate of child poverty and the highest rate of food insecurity of any Canadian province or territory. In 2022, around 80 per cent of Indigenous children aged between one and 14 in Nunavut lived in households experiencing food insecurity. In 2018, the rate of childhood food…