I went to the Trussell Trust food bank round the corner from theObserver's offices just before Christmas. If I hadn't been reading the papers, I would have assumed…
The shocking impact of recession and austerity on England’s poorest people has come to light again in figures showing the number of malnutrition cases treated…
More families with children are living in bed and breakfast accommodation in England than for almost 10 years. There are 2,090 families living in this form of…
In October 2013, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) published a report showing that ‘children in low-income households do less well than their better-off peers on…
The north-south divide in home repossessions is the widest it has been for six years and four of the UK's top five "repossession hotspots" are in north-west…
The number of people who are paid less than a "living wage" has leapt by more than 400,000 in a year to over 5.2 million,…
It has become a weekly if not a daily ritual in Rupert Murdoch’s British tabloid newspaper The Sun : in big and bold articles it writes how…