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🇬🇧 Mirror
National & Local

Do you agree with Gordon Brown that Reform will 'plunge kids into poverty'? Take our poll

Gordon Brown warns that a potential Reform government could reintroduce the two-child benefit limit, risking poverty for many children in the UK.

Feb 25 • 13:43 UTC
🇨🇦 Global News
National & Local

Child poverty rising for third straight year in Canada, report says

Child poverty in Canada has increased for the third consecutive year, with a report highlighting significant setbacks in efforts to reduce poverty among children.

Feb 25 • 11:00 UTC
🇬🇧 Mirror
National & Local

Gordon Brown's chilling warning on Reform in major intervention

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown warns that Nigel Farage's Reform UK will revert Britain to policies that exacerbate child poverty, advocating for the abolition of a controversial benefit limit.

Feb 24 • 19:00 UTC
🇬🇧 Mirror
National & Local

Gordon Brown: 'Reform will force children back to poverty - parents now have a choice'

Gordon Brown argues that proposed reforms by the Reform UK party could push children back into poverty while highlighting the positive impact of Labour's changes on families in the Gorton and Denton constituencies.

Feb 24 • 18:56 UTC
🇸🇪 Aftonbladet
National & Local

S criticizes proposal for stricter requirements for benefits

The Social Democrats criticize a proposal by the government and the Sweden Democrats that would require immigrants to live in Sweden for five years before receiving certain social benefits.

Feb 23 • 17:34 UTC
🇨🇦 Global News
National & Local

‘No real progress’ in Nova Scotia’s child and family poverty rates: report

A new report indicates that child and family poverty rates in Nova Scotia remain stagnant with no significant progress.

Feb 18 • 21:55 UTC
🇬🇧 Mirror
National & Local

Scrapping DWP two-child benefit limit is right choice - here's how it will help families

The discussion highlights the necessity of eliminating the two-child limit on benefits to alleviate poverty in the UK.

Feb 18 • 17:02 UTC
🇬🇧 Mirror
National & Local

Reform UK plans to push kids into poverty with two-child benefit limit U-turn

Reform UK's new Treasury spokesman announced plans to restore a two-child benefit limit, which critics argue could push many children into poverty.

Feb 18 • 11:15 UTC
🇬🇷 Naftemporiki
National & Local

European Parliament: Proposals for measures to eliminate poverty in the EU by 2035

The European Parliament has called for increased funding and coordination to combat poverty and social exclusion in the EU by 2035.

Feb 12 • 16:17 UTC
🇪🇸 El Mundo
National & Local

The Government includes a universal parenting allowance in a strategy with 100 goals to be met by 2030

The Spanish government has approved a Sustainable Development Strategy aimed at fulfilling 100 goals by 2030, which includes a universal parenting allowance for all families with children.

Feb 10 • 12:14 UTC
🇬🇧 Mirror
National & Local

Squirming Reform MP confronted over child poverty vote blunder on live TV

MP Robert Jenrick mistakenly voted to lift the two-child benefit cap, potentially helping hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty, but denies confusion over his party's policy.

Feb 9 • 10:24 UTC
🇪🇸 El País
National & Local

Children and adolescents are the losers in the Spanish economy

One in three minors in Spain lives below the poverty threshold, a situation that is becoming chronic.

Feb 8 • 04:30 UTC
🇪🇸 elDiario.es
National & Local

Bustinduy proposes implementing the Zucman tax on the ultra-rich to fund a universal child benefit

Spanish Minister of Social Rights Pablo Bustinduy has proposed a tax on billionaires, known as the 'Zucman tax,' to generate funds for a universal child benefit aimed at eradicating child poverty.

Feb 6 • 13:00 UTC
🇪🇸 El País
Crime & Justice

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child urges Spain to make pedophilia in the Church non-prescriptive

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has recommended that Spain make crimes of sexual abuse against minors committed by the Church non-prescriptive and calls for a universal child care allowance due to increasing child poverty.

Feb 5 • 17:56 UTC
🇪🇸 elDiario.es
National & Local

Inequality reaches a minimum since 2008 and child poverty finally decreases

In Spain, both poverty and inequality continue to decline, with the poverty rate falling to 19.5%, the lowest level since 2008, according to the latest Survey on Living Conditions.

Feb 5 • 11:26 UTC
🇬🇧 Mirror
National & Local

DWP two-child benefit limit set to be scrapped - see how your MP voted

Labour's Bill to abolish the two-child benefit limit has successfully passed a significant vote in Parliament, with MPs overwhelmingly supporting the end of the policy that has been critiqued for contributing to child poverty.

Feb 4 • 11:23 UTC
🇬🇧 Mirror
National & Local

MPs vote to end two-child benefit limit in 'crucial step' to tackle poverty

UK MPs have voted to abolish the two-child benefit limit in a pivotal move to address child poverty, despite opposition from the Reform party.

Feb 3 • 19:23 UTC
🇬🇧 Mirror
National & Local

Nigel Farage accused of planning to plunge half a million children into poverty with pubs pledge

Nigel Farage faces criticism for proposing to fund a £3 billion support package for pubs by reinstating a two-child benefit cap, allegedly putting 450,000 children at risk of poverty.

Feb 3 • 16:39 UTC
🇩🇪 SZ
National & Local

Austria: No child will be left alone

The Austrian government met this week to discuss key issues, focusing on combating child poverty amidst media attention on the location of their meeting.

Jan 16 • 11:12 UTC
🇬🇧 Guardian
National & Local

Starmer says Reform UK and Tories are in ‘cruel alliance’, as bill to get rid of two-child benefit cap unveiled – UK politics live

Keir Starmer criticizes the alliance between Reform UK and the Conservatives as detrimental to child poverty, coinciding with the unveiling of a new bill aimed at removing the two-child benefit cap.

Jan 8 • 09:38 UTC
🇬🇧 Guardian
National & Local

Reeves condemns Farage opposition to lifting two-child benefit cap

Rachel Reeves criticized Nigel Farage's opposition to lifting the two-child benefit cap, arguing that his stance would perpetuate poverty based on racial lines.

Jan 7 • 22:30 UTC
🇬🇧 Mirror
National & Local

Rachel Reeves blasts Reform and Tories over child poverty - 'all over the place'

Chancellor Rachel Reeves criticized Reform UK and the Conservative Party for their positions on child benefits, particularly targeting Nigel Farage's inconsistent stance on the two-child benefit limit.

Jan 7 • 22:30 UTC
🇮🇹 Il Giornale
National & Local

Tommaso Cerno: "I was poor as a child. Entering politics? The biggest mistake of my life"

In reflecting on his childhood, Cerno candidly discusses his experiences of poverty and isolation growing up in Udine, revealing how it shaped his journey into politics and the realization of his mistakes.

Jan 2 • 18:38 UTC

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