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Tory austerity is still devastating Britain
Reports from Crisis, the Trussell Trust and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation show that the inhumane Tories are leading us deeper into a social emergency, writes KEN LIVINGSTONE
People take part in the People's Assembly Britain is Broken national demonstration in central London
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THE situation facing Britain is nothing less than a social emergency. Currently, 14.5 million people are living in poverty in Britain, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s figures that were released in September.
In terms of children specifically, the latest numbers tell us that almost one in three children are living in poverty (31 per cent). Nearly half of children in lone-parent families live in poverty, compared with one in four of those in couple families.
And more people than ever will be using foodbanks this Christmas, with a recent release from the Trussell Trust reporting that “for the first time outside of the first year of the pandemic, foodbanks in the Trussell Trust network has distributed over 2.1 million food parcels in 2021-22.”
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