Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
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UN Poverty Report Highlights British Government's Role Fuelling Inequality
Following his 2-week tour of the U.K., the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights slammed Britain's welfare-cutting policies as more are driven to poverty, hunger and homelessness.
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Great Britain Has 9 out of 10 of the Poorest Regions in Northern Europe
Shortly after the U.K. fell from being the world's fifth biggest economy, a new report shows that Britain is, in no unvarnished terms, infested with poverty.
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In U.K. Welfare Overhaul, Many Worry Universal Credit Will Devastate Poor Families
“The government is in denial about the reality of severe deprivation in the U.K.," says Simon Duffy of the Centre for Welfare Reform, and "any delays in income will push many people who are already living in poverty and debt into extreme distress.”
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Inequality and Poverty Causing Shocking Number of Child Deaths in Great Britain
Child health experts in the U.K. are now warning that social and economic inequalities have become a matter of life or death.
