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Fat Macy's: How one man escaped the Catch-22 of the benefits system, Dec 1 <ref>[http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2016/12/fat-macys-how-one-man-escaped-catch-22-benefits-system newstatesman.com]</ref> | |||
Benefits sanctions don't work and plunge claimants into 'hunger and depression', National Audit Office finds, Nov 30 <ref>[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/benefits-sanctions-plunging-claimants-into-hunger-and-depression-cuts-dwp-government-theresa-may-a7446166.html independent.co.uk]</ref> | Benefits sanctions don't work and plunge claimants into 'hunger and depression', National Audit Office finds, Nov 30 <ref>[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/benefits-sanctions-plunging-claimants-into-hunger-and-depression-cuts-dwp-government-theresa-may-a7446166.html independent.co.uk]</ref> |
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StreetLink, enables the public to alert local authorities in England about people sleeping rough in their area. W Citizens data initiativeAs of 2013, there are 10.6 million people with income below 60% of the inflation-adjusted 2010/11 median (termed "absolute low income" by the DWP), up from 9.7 million in 2012. In 2014, another report by Institute for Fiscal Studies said that 23.2% of Britons were now in relative poverty, the highest since 2001. It has been found by the Poverty and Social Exclusion project at Bristol University in 2014, that the proportion of households lacking three items or activities deemed necessary for life in the UK at that time (as defined by a survey of the wider population) has increased from 14% in 1983 to 33% in 2012. W Briefing 17: Who owns all the land? Inequality Briefing MapsResearchMinimum Income Standard for the UK, Loughborough University VideoError in widget YouTube: Unable to load template 'wiki:YouTube'
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News and comment2016 Fat Macy's: How one man escaped the Catch-22 of the benefits system, Dec 1 [1] Benefits sanctions don't work and plunge claimants into 'hunger and depression', National Audit Office finds, Nov 30 [2] UK should follow Finland, the only European country where homelessness has decreased, Sep 15 [3] Impact of poverty costs the UK £78bn a year, Aug 1 [4] Number of UK children living in poverty jumps by 200,000 in a year, Jun 28 [5] 2015 The cause of the Runnymede eco-villagers is a righteous one, September 22 [6] See also
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