Austerity News

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

Support for Mortgage Interest: Thousands face ‘cutting down on food’ as benefit axed

Cuts to children’s services are pushing young people into violence and exploitation, experts warn

Children’s services in England are in financial crisis, say charities

English councils accused of hiding scale of homelessness crisis

Taxpayers picked up a £298m bill as redundancy payouts soared to a five-year high following a wave of insolvencies

Austerity blamed as prosecutions fall to lowest number on record

UK economy £100bn smaller because of austerity – thinktank

British children living in poverty ‘could hit record high’ – report

Child poverty on course for record high due to stagnant wages and benefits cuts, report finds

No-deal effects ‘would dwarf Honda pullout’, says Clark

Turmoil over Brexit is costing country £800m a week, a top Bank of England official claims

Brexit Party leader branded ‘distasteful’ after claiming foodbanks make kids obese

Labour blames 120,000 deaths on Tory austerity in hard-hitting new TV broadcast

Public services ‘face more cuts’ under brutal squeeze

Government departments need extra £11bn to end austerity, warns Institute for Fiscal Studies

Universal credit: DWP ‘bans jobcentres from referring people to food banks’

Labour says government underestimates homelessness because of how they count it

Mark Carney: Britain faces weakest growth in a decade

Agony of homeless mum-to-be who lost her unborn baby on freezing streets

Call for universal credit overhaul amid fears of looming evictions crisis

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