#UK - The number of children in poverty in the UK has reached its highest level since comparative records began in 2002.

> In the year to April 2024, there were 4.45 million children living in a household of relative low income after housing costs are deducted - the government's own standard measure for #poverty.

> The figure, [..], is an increase of 100,000 children from the previous year - and equates to 31% of #children in the UK.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2g03ykxeko #Brexit #austerity #economy

"Starving Babies IS NOT SELF-DEFENCE

IT'S GENOCIDE"

#politics #Palestine #Gaza #poverty #hunger #children #Terrorism #genocide

Jesse Welles - The Poor

if you worked a little harder...

#JesseWelles #ThePoor #Folk #Music #Poverty #ClassWar #OpulentClass #PunchingDown #Media #Gaslighting #VictimShaming #DeathPanels #Homelessness #Starvation #Austerity #Exclusion

Aha!

These ‘48 laws of power’ could go some way to explaining why autistics don’t do very well socially 🤣

⬇️

(From the bestselling '48 laws of power’ by Robert Greene)

#LawsOfPower
#48LawOfPower

#Society #Power #Capitalism #Wealth #Homelessness #Poverty #Intersectionality #Autism #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent

“All UK families ‘to be worse off by 2030’ as poor bear the brunt, new data warns.” The only way to make people better off is to redistribute wealth. Not something easy to bribe Labour politicians are up for. #Labour #Poverty #TaxTheRich

Nemahsis - I Borrow Happiness From Tomorrow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YQKleGXUZI

"I don't, don't, don't need a lot"
What I say before I get carried away
Write a list I can't afford
To cope, I borrow happiness from tomorrow
Don't need a lot

#Nemahsis #IBorrowHappinessFromTomorrow #Alternative #Music #Coping #SadWorld #SocialDecay #Struggle #Poverty #Genocide #Palestine

Social Security Employees Warn of Damage From #DOGE

Current & former employees, both #Republican & #Democratic, are raising alarms about the damage cost-cutting efforts could do to the agency’s ability to serve the public.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/business/social-security-doge-ssa.html

"Many current & former Social Security officials fear the cuts could create gaping holes in the agency’s #infrastructure, destabilizing the program, which keeps millions of people out of #poverty"

#Musk #Trump #GOP #USPol #SocialSecurity #News #USA

This system is one where the profits are privatized, while risks and loss are publicized -- we all know that.
Throughout the world, the poverty is rising, hunger is increasing. "The needs are simply rising faster than the money coming in" says OCHA spokesperson. So, while corporate profits are sky-high, they enjoy low-tax or no-tax profits while the whole world suffers.

#capitalism #climateCrisis #poverty #hunger

US and Israel float Palestinians being moved to African countries https://www.byteseu.com/833465/ #AbdirahmanMohamedAbdullahi #AbrahamAccord #BenjaminNetanyahu #BezalelSmotrich #DonaldTrump #GeneralNews #GovernmentPrograms #Israel #IsraelGovernment #JoeBiden #PalestinianTerritoriesGovernment #Politics #poverty #Religion #RonDermer #somalia #Sudan #SudanGovernment #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesGovernment #WashingtonNews #WorldNews

Poorest Brits now worse off than poorest in Slovenia, report finds
https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/living-standards-benefits-uk-poorest-brits/

#Poverty

https://www.europesays.com/?p=1899989 Iranians live in poverty, don’t support Ali Khamenei, Islamic Regime #AyatollahAliKhamenei #Conflicts #Hamas #Hezbollah #Inequality #Iran #Israel #MiddleEast #Poverty

Iranians live in poverty, don’t support Ali Khamenei, Islamic Regime https://www.byteseu.com/?p=812607 #AyatollahAliKhamenei #Conflicts #Hamas #Hezbollah #Inequality #Iran #Israel #MiddleEast #poverty

Addiction is not the primary cause of homelessness, capitalism is.

#homelessness #capitalism #poverty #neoliberalism #austerity

MICHAEL
FUCKING
SHEEN

The *real* Prince of Wales. 💖🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

#Poverty #CostOfLivingCrisis #UKPolitics #Cymru

What the western hypocrites happily forget about the disgusting legacy of British rule and the role monarchy played in looting the nations across the globe.

#UK #britain #england #british #monarchy #anglo-saxons #colonialism #antihumanity #poverty #economy #India #indian #history

Powerful call to collective action! *Must read* & please boost!

“The Purge of the Deep State and the Road to Dictatorship”

by Chris Hedges in The Chris Hedges Report on Substack

“Donald Trump’s dismantling of the deep state presages the formation of something far worse”

https://open.substack.com/pub/chrishedges/p/the-purge-of-the-deep-state-and-the?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios

#Press #US #Trump #Fascism #Barbarism #DeepState #Resistance #Dictatorship #Coup #Nazi #Hitler #Poverty #Tyranny #Mobilization #Repression #Musk #Collapse

Let’s talk cost. Poverty is expensive. It leads to crime, poor health, and economic stagnation. We already spend trillions dealing with its consequences.

UBI attacks the root cause. It’s not a handout—it’s an investment. A society where people aren’t constantly in crisis is a productive society.

You deserve a UBI ❤️

#UBI #UBI4ME #UniversalBasicIncome #poverty #CostOfLiving #living #UBISavesMoney #society #SocialChange #policy #politics

The world's largest basic income experiment

https://volewica.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-worlds-largest-basic-income.html

#UBI #BasicIncome #Poverty #Inequality

*Must read* & please boost

“The Mafia State”

by Chris Hedges in The Chris Hedges Report on Substack

@UKLabour take note!

“The mafia state cannot be reformed. We must organize to break our chains, one-by-one, to use the power of the strike to cripple the state machinery”

https://open.substack.com/pub/chrishedges/p/the-mafia-state?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios

#Press #US #Trump #Musk #Mafia #State #Poverty #Immiseration #Decline #Destruction #Billionaire #Economy #Control #Surveillance #Project2025 #Christian #Fascist #MagicalThinking #Capitalism

Today in Labor History December 19, 2001: The Argentine government declared a state of siege to stop the worst looting and rioting in a decade sparked by austerity measures and poverty.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #argentina #Riot #poverty #austerit

“Real freedom exists only where exploitation has been destroyed, where there is no oppression of some people by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where man does not tremble for the fact that tomorrow he may lose his job, his home, his bread.”

Joseph Vissarionovich #Stalin
#freedom #fear #oppression #unemployment #poverty #quotation #history #humanrights #workerrights

Joseph Rowntree 2025 Poverty Report confirms its been 20 years since any major improvement in poverty across the UK.

This is hardly surprising given for 15 years we had a Tory Govt. which whatever they may have declared had no real interest in reducing poverty.

Child poverty is often urban & concentrated in the Midlands & North of England while overall around one in five UK residents are in poverty!

Reversing this looks unlikely under the current Govt. too

#poverty
https://www.jrf.org.uk/uk-poverty-2025-the-essential-guide-to-understanding-poverty-in-the-uk

#eu #europe #map #economy #foods #uk #britain #england #capitalism is #poverty

Just a reminder Deferred #Resignation #Email to #FederalEmployees January 28, 2025 https://www.opm.gov/fork/ by #musk employees who hijacked the #OPM office of personnel management server and have repeatedly threatened civil service employees. who provide all of us with #Medicare #medicaid #socialSecurity #Unemployment #Insurance #SNAP #HeadStart #SSI #WIC #affordablecareact #ACA #CHIP #food #nutrition #education #security #poverty #healthcare #aviation #transportation #safety net life in America

Not a report that seems to be mentioned by the #English mainstream media and quietly ignored by Labour.

https://www.jrf.org.uk/uk-poverty-2025-the-essential-guide-to-understanding-poverty-in-the-uk#_-poverty-rates-vary-significantly-between-uk-nations-and-regions

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-guardian/20250129/281900188891800

#Child Poverty rates in #Scotland (24%) remain much lower than those in England (30%) and Wales (29%) and are similar (if slightly higher) than in Northern Ireland (23%). This is likely to be due, at least in part, to the Scottish Child Payment. This highlights the effect benefits can have in reducing #poverty.

#JosephRowntreeTrust

Energizing the former Ukraine
Reflects the result of the country's political movement after #Maidan government coup 2014.



The assumption is the sharp rise in exports after 2015 was due to Ukraine no longer having to supply energy to the Donbass regions controlled by rebels and Crimea.
#ukraine #ukrainian #energy #electricity #economy #poverty #fail #failstate #history

@grogsgamut points out
#australia is
9th richest OECD country
5th highest rate (23%) retirees in poverty
2nd lowest level aged care pension
#poverty #inequality
#auspol
#laborgovernmentaustralia is trying to change tax so earnings related to superannuation balances (solely) ABOVE $3m would be taxed at 30% – still well below the top tax rate of 45%… this met by fear campaigns from vested interest groups & conservative #media #neoliberalism
“almost the smallest change that could be done – affecting less than 1% – and yet it is unlikely to pass.”
#taxtherich
#taxtherich
#taxtherich

https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2025/jan/23/misleading-fear-campaigns-may-kill-labors-superannuation-changes-but-here-are-the-real-numbers-ntwnfb?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

More tales from the low-wage end of the UK economy, with it would seem, the Living Wage Foundation allowing itself to be used to hide the extent of low wage contracts in outsourcing firms....

The Q. is whether one believes the LWF is 'working' with these providers to raise the wages of workers, or whether they are being used as (innocent) cover to hide the continued exploitation of the 'slaves'?

You can make up your own mind!

#workers #poverty

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/19/living-wage-foundation-accused-of-accrediting-firms-not-paying-the-living-wage

George Carlin explains why the US, despite having a war on everything, doesn’t have a war on homelessness in under a minute

https://x.com/afshinrattansi/status/1879119336046260690

#health
#poverty
#socialism
#capitalism
#communism
#classwar
#democracy
#humanrights
#austerity
#socialwork
#slavery
#resistance
#housing
#homelessness

#health
#poverty
#socialism
#capitalism
#communism
#classwar
#democracy
#humanrights
#austerity
#socialwork
#slavery
#resistance

The sky-high cost of housing in the UK accounts for almost a quarter of all spending by lower-income households. This contributes to poorer families being £2,300 worse off than their German counterparts.

New research from the Resolution Foundation.

#Rents #Poverty #Housing #UKPolitics
https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/whose-price-is-it-anyway/

Britain's housing crisis is having a major impact on low- and middle-income households (which we know), but when compared to the plight of similar households in other European countries that negative impact is much starker & reflects, of course, the inequality of UK society.

This is hardly surprising, but reinforces the need to urgently find some way to start to resolve the housing crisis... there's n shortage of ideas, just a lack of real action!

#housing #poverty

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/13/uk-low-middle-income-families-poorer-oecd-counterparts-study-western-europe

According to LAS, Parkash, alongside room rental business operator, Luis Bello, was involved in a scheme to charge tenants more rent than permitted by NYC’s rent-stabilization laws.

LAS wrote that, “To further maximize profits and prevent tenants from asserting their rights, Bello and his agents engaged in egregious behavior, regularly intimidating and harassing some tenants by destroying their property, making physical and verbal threats, and illegally locking them out of their homes.Parkash also commenced dozens of sham eviction proceedings, leaving Bello free to replace old tenants with new occupants and continue the scheme.”

In 2023, Parkash was also sued by tenants of one of his buildings in Queens for ignoring requests to remove mold, roaches, and mice, as well as failing to provide adequate heat in the winter.

Lack of heat due to greedy and negligent landlords is a persistent problem in the Bronx, leading many to resort to space heaters which can pose a fire hazard. According to a 2023 report from the New York City comptroller’s office, an outsized share of heating complaints came from buildings concentrated in the Northwest and South Bronx, northern Manhattan and central Brooklyn, some of the poorest areas in New York City and the country overall.

Although New York City has laws on the books to enforce adequate heat, data shows that these laws often go unenforced. According to the comptroller’s report, of the 1,077 buildings that registered at least five complaints per heat season, the city government failed to take any action to enforce existing laws in over 25% of these buildings.

Following the deadly Twin Parks fire, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation that targeted not the negligent landlords that fail to adequately heat their buildings, but instead the sale of space heaters themselves.

#USA #US #american #NY #capitalism is #deception #fraud #poverty #antihumanity

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/11/australian-food-charities-expensive-foodbank-falling-donations-unprecedented-demand

Gee whiz, a totes intractable unsolvable problem. If only there were stuff around like, oh i dunno, #MMT, #DoughnutEconomics, #UBI, #centrelink pmts above the poverty level, et al. Sigh, there i go, dreaming my dreams again...

#FuckCapitalism #ChangeTheSystem #WeAreSelfishCruelBastards #WeAreTotallyFscked #AusPol #WhyIsLabor #Poverty #charity

A gimme to the American middleclass but NO FAIRNESS for low income recipients whose SSI supplement caps their possible job income in retirement at $200 before dollar for dollar reductions begin.

"#Biden signs #SocialSecurity Fairness Act into law: What to know"
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5070259-social-security-benefits-expansion/ #Poverty

Connecticut allows towing companies to sell some people’s cars after just 15 days — one of the shortest windows in the country.

The sales have particularly affected low-income people, who have lost jobs after they were unable to get their cars back.

https://propub.li/3DGYCPs

#News #Connecticut #Cars #Poverty #Business #DMV #Towing

#infographics show #Western #american #oligarchy is #money for #Musk #Bezos #Ellison #Zuckerberg #Page #Brin #Ballmer #Huang #Gates #Dell #Walton #Buffet #Bloomberg #Koch etc. #oligarchs and #poverty for #workers

#israel #lebanon : #war / #hezbollah / #economy / #worldbank / #destruction / #civilianwarvictims / #poverty

„Israel leveled hundreds of buildings. Shelling has prompted the burning of olive, banana & citrus farmlands. Restaurants and other businesses have closed, leaving thousands without jobs. The World Bank estimates that the war has cost $8.5 billion in damages. The conflict cut the nation’s gross domestic product by 6.6 percent this year, the bank said this month.“

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/world/middleeast/lebanon-economy-hezbollah-israel-war.html?unlocked_article_code=1.lU4.8P1-.YYsJ5dseLcg8&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare