Austerity News

See who’s saying what on Austerity and how different sections of the Press approach the same story.

Council house tenants on universal credit owe almost three times as much rent as those on old benefits

Half of young people facing homelessness denied help – report

85,000 jobs lost from Britain’s high streets as retailers feel the pinch

British high street losing 14 shops a day, new research shows

Brexit plan ‘complete shambles’, UK boss of ThyssenKrupp says

‘It’s unfair’: UN envoy meets children living in poverty in Scotland

Schools ask parents to pay for toilet rolls

Shropshire Council becomes first in UK to force staff to work from home on Fridays to save money

Shropshire council becomes the first in the country to make staff work from home on Fridays to save £7million but critics label it a ‘workers’ lock-out’

Homelessness: Misery of the families forced to live on an industrial estate

Hastings struggles to feed its poor

Embattled high street retailers call for help as closures soar

Retailers in the doldrums: In-store sales fall for the ninth consecutive month as shoppers shun the High Street

Record number of high street closures as shops feel pinch

Six in 10 rental homes in some parts of Britain ban housing benefit tenants, study shows

Universal credit in Oldham: Mother was forced to go through bin for leftovers

Over half of young Britons are ‘living on the edge’ financially

Theresa May urged to stop ministers from gagging charity sector

Gagging clauses have BANNED hundreds of charities and companies with taxpayer-funded contracts from publicly criticising the government

Grenfell cladding experts banned from criticising Theresa May

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