Dire poverty could usher in Victorian-era inequality By Hanna Ziady, CNN 4 minute read Updated 11:10 AM EST, Mon December 11, 2023 Link Copied! Shoppers pass a homeless person on ...

Poverty has always been a complex challenge, but our views on it have evolved dramatically over time. For centuries, poverty was seen as a fact of life, with charity considered a moral duty. However, ...

In fact, wind the clock back and the percentage of people in poverty has fallen by little over 10% since the first great UK poverty surveys were carried out at the end of the nineteenth century. But ...

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The most disadvantaged people in the United Kingdom are no better-off than they were 15 years ago, according to a new report, which finds a “yawning gap between those who can get by and those ...

Meanwhile those Victorian illnesses like rickets, once considered eradicated, are on the rise again. Getting a healthy, ... There are 290,000 children living in poverty in a family claiming personal ...

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We like to believe that Victorian poverty and the shocking history of our own beggarly past are behind us. Far from it Charlie Chaplin sitting forlornly at the bottom of the steps in a scene from ...

The most disadvantaged people in the United Kingdom are no better-off than they were 15 years ago, according to a new report, which finds a “yawning gap between those who can get by and those ...

The think tank warns that the UK risks “sliding back into the two nations of the Victorian era, marked by a widening gulf between mainstream society and a… poverty-stricken underclass.” ...