One of the most recent developments in Manchester City Centre, Deansgate Square, includes a luxury penthouse flat with an asking price of £2.5 million. The housing developer has christened it the Engels penthouse.
Poverty used to be synonymous with unemployment. Of course, there have always been poverty wages.
The Resolution Foundation’s annual audit of living standards, published at the end of July, warns that child poverty in Britain has been rising twice as fast since 2011 (when “austerity” began).
London has the severest poverty in Britain, a new study shows.
20 February 2017
New research on living standards shows that four million more people in Britain are living below an adequate standard of living.
The Trussell Trust announced in April that 1.1 million people in Britain are now using food banks to obtain emergency food supplies.
23 November 2015
On Wednesday 25 November, figures will be announced for the number of additional winter deaths of older people due to cold-related illnesses – and black balloons will be released to indicate the scale of fuel poverty in Britain.
14 December 2014
The Greater London Authority’s recent update on poverty in London makes stark reading. Despite being the play bauble of the world’s rich, London remains one of the most deprived areas in Britain.
