The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

Labour will not change two-child cap with King's Speech, Angela Rayner says

LABOUR will not remove the two-child benefit cap in the King’s Speech, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has said ...

The National (Scotland) · Jul 16, 2024

Keir Starmer government digs in as it faces Labour revolt over two-child benefit limit

Labour MP Kim Johnson is ready to table an amendment to the King’s Speech to ditch the restriction

Evening Standard · Jul 16, 2024

Baltimore officials sue to block 'baby bonus' initiative that would give new parents $1,000

Baltimore’s mayor and city council are trying to stop a proposed ballot measure that would give all new parents a $1,000 “baby bonus” meant to help reduce childhood poverty from birth

The Independent UK · Jul 15, 2024

Close to half of all Florida households struggle to make ends meet, report shows

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

Latin Times · Jul 12, 2024

Food bank launches campaign to end subsidised ‘fine dining’ for MPs

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

The Independent UK · Jul 12, 2024

Labour has power at last. Will it use it to scrap the inhumane two-child benefit cap?

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

The Guardian - UK · Jul 11, 2024

Number of Scottish families impacted by two-child benefit cap rises to 26,000

POVERTY campaigners have demanded the UK Government urgently scraps the two-child benefit cap after figures revealed 26,000 families were impacted…

The National (Scotland) · Jul 11, 2024

Keir Starmer faces first Commons revolt as PM over two child benefit cap opposed by many Labour MPs

Ex-shadow chancellor John McDonnell says he may seek to amend the Budget to scrap this welfare restriction

Evening Standard · Jul 11, 2024

Labour pressed to end two-child benefit cap with 1.6m youngsters affected

Campaigners say figure is shameful and that Tory policy is single biggest driver of child poverty

The Guardian - UK · Jul 11, 2024

Pressure ramps up on Labour to ditch ‘cruel’ two-child benefit cap as 1.6 million children impacted

Some 592,000 children were affected by the policy in 2019, and the figure has increased by 100,000 in the past year

The Independent UK · Jul 11, 2024