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Children going hungry every day should be a scandal
No parent should be in a position of making spending choices that include whether or not they can afford to feed their child, says ANNETTE MANSELL-GREEN
In the current climate, it is vital to bust the myths and put forward the case for a humane and decent social security system that supports people, argues FRAN HEATHCOTE
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
With 121,000 vacancies and 44.8% of staff feeling unwell from work stress, the NHS 10-year plan will not succeed unless the government takes immediate action to retain existing staff, writes ANNETTE MANSELL-GREEN
With 90 courses from health and safety to neurodiversity, AI and political economy, we are helping workers understand the political context of their struggles, writes general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE
CHILD poverty in Britain is not new. Children going hungry in Britain is not new.
A rich and supposedly civilised country such as ours should treat this as an emergency, an outrage and a priority to be addressed.
But instead child poverty has been rising steadily since 2012 and, according to the Child Poverty Action Group, it is predicted that by 2023-4, whether or not the £20 uplift in universal credit and working tax credit is kept, the number of children living in poverty (after housing costs) will be the highest since records began (4.4 million with the uplift kept, 4.7m without).
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