Voices: How your relationship status can leave you financially worse-off
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Universal credit is a lifeline for those of us who have found ourselves in a difficult financial situation. Read More
UN says Africa faces unprecedented food crisis, with 3 in 4 people unable to afford a healthy diet
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Reading Time: < 1 minute At least three-fourths of Africans can’t afford a healthy diet, and a fifth are undernourished due to an “unprecedented food crisis,” United Nations…
Greedflation: corporate profiteering ‘significantly’ boosted global prices, study shows
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Profiteering has played a significant role in boosting inflation during 2022, according to a report that calls for a global corporation tax…
UK ranks worst among some of world’s richest countries on child poverty – Unicef
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Child poverty levels in the UK have risen by a fifth in recent years, according to Unicef, ranking worst among some of…
Britain only rich nation where food prices are rising by more than 10pc
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Britain is the only rich economy where food prices are still rising by more than 10pc, according to data that highlights the…
Up for a 4am supermarket shift, then lectures: the life of a UK student amid cost of living crisis
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Five days a week, the sky is pitch black when George, a first-year student at Liverpool John Moores University, wakes up for…
Dramatic plan to overturn Sadiq Khan's ULEZ scheme receives major new backing
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A plan to overturn London’s Ultra Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ) scheme has received major new backing just days before the Bill is heard in…
Mortgage warning issued as 500,000 Brits to face payment hikes in next three months
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Nearly half a million Brits will face a hike in their mortgage payments over the next three months. Read More
Jeremy Hunt’s free childcare pledge ‘doomed to fail’ as thousands of nurseries close amid staffing crisis
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Thousands of nurseries have shut their doors amid a staffing crisis, leaving Jeremy Hunt’s flagship Budget pledge to expand free childcare for British families “doomed to failure”, The Independent has…
‘It’s extortionate’: a mother’s struggle to afford rising price of baby formula
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Rebecca Anderson, 37, knows how it feels to be on the sharp end of baby formula price rises. Read More