Reeves’ benefit cuts to plunge 250,000 people into poverty, government admits
An extra 50,000 children will also be left in poverty after the Labour chancellor’s move to slash £5bn from the welfare bill ...
FISTA holds ‘Bridges out of Poverty’ workshop event
A community event aimed at shaping and changing the way people think about poverty was held this afternoon in Lawton.
Opinion
Social Security helped slash elderly poverty to 9.2 percent in the 20th century – that triumph is now in jeopardy
(THE CONVERSATION) In 1959, more than a third of all elderly Americans lived in poverty. Slashing that number to under 10 percent by the late 1990s was among the great U.S. triumphs of the 20th ...
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Filipinos see pathway from poverty with virtual assistant jobs
As her young family sleeps, she fires up her laptop and begins discussing the day's agenda with her boss -- an American half ...
DWP warns 250,000 people including children will be pushed into poverty by cuts
The DWP impact assessment of the health and disability benefit cuts also says that will put an extra 250,000 people, ...
Welfare reform will push 250,000 into poverty, Government’s own assessment says
Charities had already reported a surge in calls and visits to their advice pages following a welfare reform announcement last ...
Opinion: Mia Love was a true Utah original
With Love’s death on Sunday, Utah lost one of its great originals and modern pioneers, but it will never lose her legacy. Her ...
The Spring Statement is choosing to put thousands of kids in poverty
But in today’s Spring Statement from the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, showed a shocking determination to instead double down on ...
Use evidence, not conspiracy theories, to make America’s kids healthy
The MAHA Commission should partner with child health experts in the American Academy of Pediatrics to promote policies that ...
Benefit cuts could push 250,000 people - including 50,000 children - into poverty
Benefit cuts push an estimated quarter of a million more people, including 50,000 children, into poverty, according to the ...
Opinion
Sen. May: Expand Working Families Tax Credit to lift Syracuse kids out of poverty (Your Letters)
Expanding child tax credit would cut child poverty rate in half statewide and have an enormous impact on the Syracuse community, writes 48th District state senator.
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Head Start, a lifeline for families with children, faces federal funding cuts
Thousands of low-income families would face life-changing circumstances if the program that provides comprehensive services ...