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New Stats Show Rich Getting Richer as Cost of Living Crisis Bites for the Rest
New data shows highest paid payrolled employees saw wages soar by just under £3000 a month since 2014, while the poorest got a paltry pay rise of £167, Sian Norris reports
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The End of Free COVID Testing Will Create a Two-Tier System of Pandemic Healthcare
Sam Bright and Sian Norris inspect how deprived communities will be saddled by the Government’s new testing policies
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Birth Rates, Babies and Benefits
There’s been much talk about falling birth rates from all sides of the political spectrum – but the elephant in the nursery is the Conservatives’ record on benefit cuts
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The Biggest Intergenerational Gaps in Modern Britain
Sascha Lavin considers the vast, unspoken inequalities that exist between young and old
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‘It’s a Humanitarian Crisis’: The Asylum Seekers Slipping Out of Sight on the Polish Border
As Russia masses troops in Belarus, the Polish Government declares war on asylum seekers, Linda Mannheim speaks to local campaigners trying to help vulnerable refugees
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The Rent Trap: Britain’s Broken Housing Market
Rachel Morris delves into one of the major causes of poverty, inequality and insecurity in modern Britain
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How the Government Forces Disabled People into Poverty and Despair
The Department for Work and Pensions uses private firms to deny assistance to vulnerable people, many of whom overturn the decision on appeal, reports Chaminda Jayanetti
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Hollow Monuments: The Reality of Boris Johnson’s Levelling Up Plan
The Prime Minister’s plan for regional rebalancing shows that he is more interested in building his personal legacy than improving lives, says Sam Bright
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Wealth in Downing Street, Poverty in the UK
The Conservative Party could soon elect the UK’s richest-ever Prime Minister, while after 12 years of Conservative-led Governments millions struggle in poverty
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The Politics of Porridge
With inflation now at 5.4% and the cost of living soaring with it, the humble oat has become an avatar of moral virtue in a right-wing culture war, Sian Norris reports
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Johnson Threatened to Strip Local Funding While Deprivation Surged
The Prime Minister used the vulnerable and the impoverished, already suffering due to the pandemic, as pawns in his self-preservation strategy, notes Sam Bright
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A New Era of Austerity Beckons
For the past 12 years, the Conservative Party’s response to high public spending has always been the same: impose the burden on lower income families, says Maheen Behrana
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A Portrait of Broken Britain
Sam Bright explores the social, political and economic crises that have been stoked by successive Conservative administrations
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Rhetoric and Reality on ‘Levelling Up’ Don’t Match, Finds New Research
Thomas Perrett reports on findings by the New Economics Foundation which expose a significant problem with the Prime Minister’s flagship, if vague, policy
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Housing Benefit Freeze to Leave Low-Income Private Renters Out in the Cold
The Government’s announcement comes as rents across the UK rise at their fastest rate since the financial crisis in 2008
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Overdraught: Lack of Action on Social Homes Fuelling Cost of Living and Climate Crises
New data shows that thousands of social homes don’t meet the Government’s energy targets, reveals Sascha Lavin
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20% Increase in Child Poverty in Constituencies Represented by MPs Who Have Earned £6 Million
Sam Bright and Sascha Lavin reveal the rising levels of deprivation seen in the areas represented by the highest-earning MPs
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11 Players Who Have Made a Difference Off the Football Field
As Marcus Rashford is honoured with an MBE for his work campaigning to end food poverty for children, Nathan O’Hagan selects his team of football heroes, past and present, who have influenced the world of politics
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How the Red Wall Has Been Levelled Down Since 2010
From child poverty to social care, some of the most disadvantaged areas of the country have faced a decade of decline at the hands of successive Conservative governments, report Sam Bright and Sascha Lavin
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Johnson’s Hypocritical Hand-Outs: How MPs Warp Perceptions of Poverty
The reality of deprivation in Britain is distorted by those who complain about earning more than £80,000 a year and rely on wealthy friends to pay for their holidays, says Maheen Behrana
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The Poverty Trap: How Boris Johnson’s Winter of Discontent Will Make Us All Poorer
Britain is facing another era of austerity and economic illiteracy, says Maheen Behrana
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Food or Fuel? The Human Cost of the Energy Crisis
Rising gas prices have prompted panic about Brexit, bail-outs and bills – but for poor families and the NHS, this crisis could not come at a worse moment
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A-Level Attainment Gap Between State and Privately Educated Children Almost Doubles During Pandemic
hile more pupils across the education system achieved the top grades than pre-pandemic, the A-level attainment gap between state and private school is prompting concern about social mobility and inequality
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Rebutting Rhetoric with Facts: Ex-Mining Regions Suffer Higher than Average Unemployment and Poverty
With Keir Starmer saying that the Prime Minister had shown his ‘true colours’ over comments about coalmine closures, which were met with outrage, Byline Times analysed the extent of inequality being endured by ex-coalfield regions
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An Unequal Kingdom: 12 Graphs that Show How We Were Never ‘In This Together’
The Byline Intelligence Team exposes the poverty and inequality that has burgeoned during 11 years of Conservative rule
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Education Committee Consulted Experts who have Dismissed White Privilege and Condemned ‘Feminist Zealots’ for New Report
MPs’ report on the disadvantages faced by white working-class pupils received submissions from people who call discussions of privilege ‘woke dogma’ and believe diversity drives are ‘racist’
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Four Years After Grenfell: Hundreds of Millions Spent, Yet No Justice Has Been Seen
Kensington and Chelsea council has spent £500 million on Grenfell funding since the fire, yet mistrust abounds as the process of justice drags slowly on, writes former local MP Emma Dent Coad
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The Social Conditions which Inspired ‘Ghost Town’ are Still With Us Today, Says The Specials’ Jerry Dammers
On the 40th anniversary of the hit song, Chris Sullivan finds its modern relevance terrifying
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How Can Johnson Ask Donors To Fund Childcare as a Decade of Austerity Pushes Children into Poverty?
The news that Johnson ‘can’t afford to be Prime Minister’ rings hollow after a decade of austerity-driven child poverty, says Sian Norris
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Schools Face Government Stealth Cuts Worth Millions for Most Disadvantaged Pupils
The Education Secretary accused Labour of moaning and complaining, as schools express anger about changes to Pupil Premium funding
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A Nation of No Second Chances: Why Does Britain Have Such a Harsh Perception of Poverty?
Maheen Behrana examines new evidence about the attitudes of Brexit voters towards those suffering deprivation
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Northern Ireland: The Potent Forces Leading to Violence Once More
Mike Buckley speaks to experts about how an intersection of factors, which go beyond concerns around identity and Brexit, are contributing to the current unrest
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Shaun Bailey’s Poverty Shaming is Symptomatic of a Wider Problem
There is still a steady and pernicious denigration of low income groups by the Conservative Party, says Maheen Behrana
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The ‘Grenfell Industry’: Council Accused of Misspending Disaster Recovery Funds
Sam Bright speaks to survivors and the bereaved, who believe that funds allocated to help them following the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire have been squandered by a council they compare to the ‘Mafia’
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I Know from First-Hand Experience Why Outsourcing Public Services Doesn’t Work
Louisa Britain, the pen name of the mother who tweets as ‘Roadside Mum’, explains how the Government should reform its provision of free school meals
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‘Marcus Rashford Can Get a Meeting with the Government About My Lunch and I Can’t. That’s Ridiculous’
Following her successful social media campaign which led to a private company U-turning on providing meagre free school meals for children and the issue debated in Parliament, Hardeep Matharu speaks to Roadside Mum about poverty, stigmatisation and the shutting down of the voices which matter
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Rishi Sunak’s Universal Credit Plan Would Reduce Support for his Own Constituents By £5 Million
The Chancellor is pushing for a reduction of Government assistance that would have a direct impact in his back yard
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£1.5 Billion Profits, Hefty Government Contracts and Big Political Donations: The Firm Behind the Free School Meals Scandal
Sian Norris digs deeper into the private companies providing free school meals to the UK’s most vulnerable children
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‘Message Is Kids’ Only Value Is the Percentage of Public Money that Can Be Turned into Private Profit’
In an exclusive interview with Byline Times, Twitter’s Roadside Mum explains how she was expected to feed her children for 10 days on the meagre free schools meal pack provided by a food service firm
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Latin America on the Edge: Pandemic Mishandling, Corruption and Authoritarianism Ignite Mass Dissent
Carole Concha Bell reports on the social unrest exploding across Latin America as governments fail to address the Coronavirus pandemic and its consequences
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Vulnerable People in Deprived Areas Waiting a Month for Housing Benefit
These waiting times are likely to increase difficulties for individuals already on the sharp end of the Coronavirus pandemic, reports Sam Bright
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‘The Problem is Not COVID-19, the Problem is this Country’: Pandemic Poverty in Coronavirus Britain
Francesca Borri visits the Hyde Park neighbourhood in Leeds, and finds a community abandoned by government; ravaged by deprivation
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Government Snubs Extension of Free School Meals
As Coronavirus lockdown restrictions are reintroduced, the Government has revealed it will not provide school holiday assistance for children on free school meals
