Centrepoint estimates 121,000 homeless or at risk, with analysis showing black people disproportionally affectedYouth homeless in the UK has increased by an estimated two-fifths in five years, rising to more than 120,000, a leading charity director has…
Keir Starmer: universal credit cut is an attack on the poorest
Labour leader says Boris Johnson’s decision to remove £20 uplift comes at ‘worst possible time’Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBoris Johnson has been accused by Keir Starmer of “turning on the poorest” as Britain eases out o…
EU citizens face losing benefits if they fail to update DWP profile
People unaware they need to input code on universal credit website could drop off system, charities warnEU citizens on benefits could lose their universal credit in three weeks time unless they evidence their right to be in the UK, charity workers have…
The Tory ‘emergency fund’ is an admission that universal credit shouldn’t be cut | Tom Pollard
The government is plugging its £6bn cut with a £500m one-off bung. How many people will struggle for food and heating?Working in frontline NHS mental health services during the darkest days of the pandemic, I often encountered people in crisis who did …
Food banks warn of smaller parcels due to HGV supply shortages
Exclusive: declining stocks and expected higher demand for charity could see struggling families given less in their food parcelsFood banks have said they will have to shrink the size of the parcels they give to struggling families owing to declining s…
Treasury minister branded ‘ridiculous’ after claiming HGV driver shortage nothing to do with Brexit – live
Simon Clarke, chief secretary to the Treasury, tells BBC: ‘The idea that this is somehow just a British problem is fundamentally wrong’100,000 renters in England ‘risk eviction’ when universal credit is cutDitching furlough will add to UK economic woes…
Tax Loopholes and Revolving Doors (Occupy K Street)
How Accounting Giants Craft Favorable Tax Rules From Inside Government [ungated] – “Lawyers from top accounting firms do brief stints in the Treasury Department, with the expectation of big raises when they return.” also btw…
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We need to talk about ‘moderate’ Democrats
Why Are Moderates Trying to Blow Up Biden’s Centrist Economic Plan? [ungated] – “In attacking the Build Back Better Act, they are working against their own purported aims.” “This is why America as an experiment — the building of a society that is both…
Rayner targets Raab over holiday fiasco as deputies take PMQs
Deputy Labour leader accuses government of failing Britons over the looming energy crisisUK politics – live updatesAngela Rayner has accused the government of failing the British people over the looming energy crisis in a prime minister’s questions not…
Gordon Brown: universal credit cut ‘vindictive and indefensible’
Ex-PM writes in Guardian that with prices of basics set to ‘rocket’, £20 a week cut is illogical and callousBrown: ‘£20 cut is most morally indefensible thing I’ve seen in politics’Gordon Brown has called the government’s decision to cut £20 a week fro…