Economists estimate extreme poverty could be drastically reduced for a fraction of global defence spending, yet military budgets continue to expand year on year, says JON TRICKETT MP, ahead of the Stop the War International Conference on Saturday
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Sticking plaster solutions to poverty are no longer working
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Andy Burnham’s growing stature has fuelled hopes of a Labour revival – but ALAN SIMPSON warns that Britain’s crisis runs far deeper than just its leadership and traces its roots to decades of financialised capitalism
ACCORDING to a BBC news report dated April 2 2018, malnourished children are attending school hungry, tired, unkempt and have been seen to be hiding food from school canteens to take home to eat.
Poverty has been a largely unreported subject for a long time now and there has always been areas where poverty is much worse than others.
This problem has now become widespread throughout the country, in areas where it was unseen in the past.
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