Breadline Britain shows that gas and electricity prices have doubled over the last decade. Meanwhile average wages have fallen over the same perod. The knock-on effects mean 21% of people are living ...

The Guardian's Breadline Britain Project is tracking the impact and consequences of recession on families and individuals across the UK. As the cost of living rises, incomes shrink, and public ...

Imagine a country where almost one in three children live in poverty and millions go to bed hungry every night. Where babies sleep in rat-infested rooms and children are forced to work to provide ...

Coventry is home to Britain's busiest food bank. Run by the Trussell Trust, it provides three days of good quality food for people who turn up, literally, hungry. People (and quietly some supermarkets ...

It looks like a rural idyll with picture-perfect villages and dramatic coastlines. But hidden behind Dorset’s chocolate box façade, there are families trapped in poverty. Further cuts to bus services ...

Westminster Chapel, an evangelical church in London, sits among the many cafés, bars and upmarket hotels catering to the smartly dressed workers of the area, just a stone’s throw from Britain’s most ...

The impact of leaving the European Union is likely to hit increases in the national living wage next year, a report has warned. Weak pay growth is set to cut 10p off the figure, with the rate now ...

Wales is in the grip of a “nutrition recession” where rising food prices and shrinking incomes mean we’re eating more processed food and less fruit and veg, experts claim. Wales is in the grip of a ...

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