Social exclusion
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Britain faces future divided by rich and poor, poverty commission warns
20 Oct 2014: Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission report predicts number of households in absolute poverty will rise by one third this decade
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21 Oct 2014: Alice Sachrajda: Communities worried about immigration will be better served by inclusive local integration efforts, not political hard talk
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21 Oct 2014: Jon Sparkes: Affordable housing is crucial, but we have to make sure that homeless people can benefit from it
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21 Oct 2014: Mary O’Hara: Sex and religion have long vexed self-appointed guardians of US school and library reading habits, but now objectors are trying to add social inequality to their list of unacceptable topics
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22 Oct 2014:
Letters: The commission on social mobility will be too kind to all the political parties unless it tackles the unrelenting efforts of those in power to force citizens on the lowest incomes into unmanageable debts
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22 Oct 2014:
Reinforced doors, metal bunks and hot food – with nuclear winter an unlikely prospect, Geneva’s fallout shelters have thrown open their doors to welcome the homeless
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22 Oct 2014:
As the 300,000 nuclear shelters in Switzerland become less likely to be used for their initial purpose, the authorities in Geneva have decided to use them for a different sort of crisis
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22 Oct 2014: English health officials say schools and nurseries in areas where people are at high risk should help children brush their teeth
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22 Oct 2014: One organisation in Spain’s most popular tourist destination is employing homeless people as tour guides to offer an alternative view of the city
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22 Oct 2014:
Patrick Butler: Carmel McConnell’s Magic Breakfast charity aims to help ensure poverty and hunger don’t stop children learning
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22 Oct 2014: Richard T Kelly: Councils should not be the sole focus of pre-election promises by politicians to build more affordable homes
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21 Oct 2014: Letters: Last month I launched a programme to recruit 100 exceptional school leaders and match them with schools that are facing some of the toughest challenges
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21 Oct 2014:
In Athens, it’s caused by an economy in crisis; in Munich, by an economy that’s booming. The result, though, is the same – a worsening homeless problem that doesn’t reflect a city’s wealth
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20 Oct 2014: Social mobility commission chair lambasts lack of child poverty targets and warns that absolute poverty is on the rise in UK
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20 Oct 2014: A combination of dwindling state support and soaring funeral costs is leaving hard-pressed families dependent on the council to bury their loved ones
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20 Oct 2014:
Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission report predicts number of households in absolute poverty will rise by one third this decade
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20 Oct 2014: Despite the global recession, homelessness in cities around the world is falling. Can a controversial strategy to give homeless people a roof first – that is, before addressing drug abuse or mental health – take the credit?
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19 Oct 2014: Social mobility commission says coalition plan to raise personal tax allowance and Labour minimum wage pledge are ineffective
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17 Oct 2014:
Matt Taibbi was the scourge of Wall Street who called Goldman Sachs a ‘vampire squid’. Here, he argues that the failure to jail crooked bankers has its flipside – a war on the poor
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