Topic: Poverty
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Labour has delivered a cruel and needless hammer blow to disabled people
Devastating cuts to benefits won’t help anyone back to work and will push thousands into deeper poverty
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Starmer says welfare cuts are necessary. MPs say it’s austerity 2.0
Some disabled people could lose up to £10,000 a year thanks to new rules on Pip and incapacity benefit payments. Some backbenchers are furious
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Labour’s welfare proposals are causing deep divisions within the party
Keir Starmer’s government was elected on the promise of transforming people’s lives, but some of its MPs believe more austerity is no change at all
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Former gambling addicts visit mosques to tackle stigma
Gambling is a sin in Islam. That can stop people getting help if they have a problem, says outreach group Urban Muslimz
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Coffee Afrik: the east London community group ‘rooted in joy, Islam and love’
Keeping unhoused people warm in winter, and supporting local women and young people, a grassroots organisation is bringing its own vision of community to the UK capital
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Bangladeshi and Pakistani families worst affected by poverty in UK
Joseph Rowntree Foundation also found the West Midlands is the only region where poverty rates have risen since the mid-1990s
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Muslim-led projects to beat loneliness saved Britain £56m last year
Study links health problems including depression and even heart attacks to loneliness — but finds groups like Sisters4Islam are reaching those in need
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‘Maybe my mum’s hoarding was her craving a sense of home’
Our attachments to physical possessions are complex, multilayered and often linked to life experiences — especially within immigrant communities
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Religious organisations stand on the frontline against poverty in Luton
Muslims, Sikhs and Christians are joining together to help people in need this winter — and beyond
