New Government Should Act to Address Poverty, Gender Inequality. February 25, 2025 Statement ... Proposed Budget Measure to Reduce Child Poverty, Improve Rights. January 13, 2025 Commentary ...

Meanwhile, the number of people experiencing poverty remains essentially unchanged from 1990. This growing inequality is no accident. For too long, corporations and an ultra-wealthy few have rigged ...

The Multidimensional Poverty Measure (MPM) seeks to understand poverty beyond monetary deprivations (which remain the focal point of the World Bank’s monitoring of global poverty) by including access ...

Child-related social benefits have lifted more than 150,000 children out of poverty in Ireland, according to the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).. It found Ireland’s current system ...

It’s this context that, without intervention, will dictate everything – from its uses in the classroom to its impact on attainment gaps. AIEd (Artificial Intelligence in Education) could well become ...

Councillor Joy Jones, Powys County Council’s Anti-Poverty Champion, said: “Behind every statistic is a child, a family, a story. This funding gives us the opportunity to listen more closely ...

This will reduce hunger at school. But it will not solve the UK's child poverty crisis.. In her spending review on 11 June, Chancellor Rachel Reeves described the move—as well as investment in ...

A new report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) also found Scotland may have to spend £920 million a year in benefits to meet its 2030 targets of reducing child poverty to under 10%.

Among the constituencies with the highest child poverty rates, East Ham, held by Labour's Stephen Timms, follows Bethnal Green and Stepney closely with a child poverty rate of 47.7 per cent.

A government ambitious to cut child poverty has these ways – and many more – of getting financial support to the low- and middle-income families that need it. But without first scrapping the two-child ...

When we consider that the poverty threshold level of income (60% of median income BHC) for a single parent household with one child under 14 is £223, and for a two parent household with two ...

Almost 5,000 children in emergency accommodation and 230,000 in material deprivation. Something has gone badly wrong ...