Economy, Business & Finance
Labour Manifesto: Child poverty
We've factchecked claims from Jeremy Corbyn's speech at the Labour party manifesto launch. Read
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Inequality in the UK
Fact checks focused on homelessness, poverty, inequality and social mobility
Economy, Business & Finance
Labour Manifesto: Rich and Poor
We've factchecked claims from Jeremy Corbyn's speech at the Labour party manifesto launch. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Is 40% of Glasgow living in poverty?
Living in a deprived area doesn’t necessarily mean a person is deprived. Around 48% of areas in Glasgow were among the 20% most deprived in Scotland. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
How many nurses are using foodbanks?
Media reports show that at least some individual nurses and trainees have visited food banks. We've not found any evidence on how widespread this is. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Are four million children living in poverty?
Around four million children in the UK were living in relative poverty in the UK, once housing costs are accounted for, although that’s just one way to measure poverty. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
How many people use food banks?
We don’t know how many people use food banks in total. The Trussell Trust, which is estimated to run around half of all food banks in the UK, says it had around 560,000 people using its services. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Pensioners in poverty
Latest figures suggest two million pensioners are in relative poverty, but the rate is much lower than it was decades ago. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Are pensioners better off than people of working age?
Research by a number of think tanks has found that the average pensioner income, after housing costs have been included, is now above that of the average person of working age. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Pensions under Labour and the Conservatives
The basic state pension went up by slightly more under Labour up to 2010 than under Conservative Chancellors since then, once inflation is factored in. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
Is child and pensioner poverty rising?
There are lots of ways to measure poverty. Some show that child and pensioner poverty have increased slightly in recent years, but others show it has been stable or fallen. Read
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