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The policy has some bipartisan support, despite the fact that it has mostly been a failure since its inception.

Vanessa Brown, coordinator of the charity that runs Meanwood Pantry, said they've seen a massive increase in need since October

Since the “refugee crisis” in 2015 precipitated the rise of the far right in Europe, debates on the impact of migration on welfare states have raged across the continent. It is hardly surprising, therefore, that EU- and non-EU migrants alike still struggle to access welfare benefits in their European countries…

Campaigners urge policymakers to act on ‘cycle of poverty’ entrapping generations of British muslims

Campaigners from the End Fuel Poverty Coalition have called for an end to pre-payment meters which they say will cause the deaths of several people this winter in the UK

Wealth and income inequality have recently gone down in the U.S. and other parts of the West, and the decline has been going on for the better part of the last decade. Yet it is not clear, to me at least, whether this is something to celebrate.

For a six-month period last year, something life-changing happened for tens of millions of American families: They started receiving automatic monthly payments of as much as $300 per child to use for whatever they needed.

The End Fuel Poverty Coalition says energy companies may be using them as a 'back-door' way of disconnecting customers who fall into debt

End Fuel Poverty Coalition fears energy suppliers are using warrants to disconnect poorest ‘by the back door’