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The Lows of High-Cost Credit
The biggest trend to hit the online retail sector is buy-now-pay-later services. Since the start of the pandemic, five million…
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The Right to Breathing Space
The government’s response to the national debt crisis comes into force this month. But despite well-meaning intentions, could this new…
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Restart: New Start Or Just History Repeating?
With Kickstarter underway, attention is now turning to help for the unemployed over-25s The government has promised more help to…
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Leaving Millions Behind
We often speak about the poverty premium – how poorer people pay more for products and services than people who…
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Pension poverty
Latest figures show that 1.9 million pensioners are living in poverty, largely because they are not claiming benefits. Nearly a…
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The Big Issue has launched a new campaign. But what will it mean for the sector?
Ride out the Recession Alliance (RORA) is the latest push by The Big Issue (TBI) to get the government to…
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Bridging the Gap
A lack of digital skills and fear of going online is leaving millions of people in the dark when it…
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Employment. Now.
With jobless numbers likely to be double those after the financial crash, it’s time we turned attention to unemployment. How…
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The COVID-19 Legacy: Acting Now to Defuse the Debt Time Bomb
Clean Slate founder Jeff Mitchell explains why we must engage struggling households during lockdown to minimise the financial fall-out from…
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Special Report: Coronavirus and Universal Credit
With the tsunami of new claimants triggered by the coronavirus crisis, should we expect a different demographic to be moving…