Three councils in the North-West of England are to press on with the development of a community bank to help tackle financial inequality in the region, after the green light was given by the...
More than half of frontline services have reported an increase in the need to provide support relating to homelessness since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report from charity...
The government has launched a taskforce to help ensure that homeless people moved into accommodation during the coronavirus pandemic do not return to sleeping rough once the crisis is resolved.
We don't yet know what will be needed to get over the effects of Covid-19, but we know those effects are going to be huge, argues CIPFA's new chief economist Jeffrey Matsu.
Universal Credit needs an “emergency boost” to ensure it can properly support people finding themselves out of work due to the coronavirus pandemic, the TUC has said.
A commission set-up to reduce inequality has called for the trebling of the UK’s proposed post-Brexit investment fund to help 'level-up' economic disparities across the UK.
Companies benefiting from big UK government contracts operating in tax havens, public sector consulting bill tops £1.4bn and young and women suffer the most from unemployment in...
The number of rough sleepers in London has boomed in the past year and now stands at almost 4,000 according to an analysis of official data released by the Greater London Authority today.
Seaside towns dominate the latest rankings for personal bankruptcies, adding to evidence that coastal regions are failing to keep pace with the rest of the economy.
Investment might be flowing into local areas but poverty and inequality persist. ‘New municipalism’ is a term that has emerged as an answer to improving local economic development. Dominic Brady...
More than 700 million people worldwide still live in extreme poverty but it is possible to leverage scarce development resources to help change that, says the World Bank’s Akihiko Nishio.
Groups have called for the housing crisis to be fixed after official figures revealed two homeless people died in England and Wales each day last year.
