Mayoral Election Issue #11: Poverty
Trust For London explains how the mayor can tackle poverty.
child poverty
London’s Living Wage – Who Pays It?
Mayor increases LLW to £8.30 per hour – we look at the companies committed to it.
Child Poverty Figures Make Grim Reading For London Boroughs
Save the Children has released a batch of statistics which highlight the shocking levels of child poverty in parts of the United Kingdom — with several London boroughs among the worst.
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The attorney general is considering the leniency of the Baby P. sentences. A black man has been beaten up by BNP supporters in Eltham. Runs in the family: now Abu Hamza’s sons admit dodgy car dealings. Kids living in poverty in London are at greater …
No Scandal Like Rags…
…nor any crime so shameful as poverty. So wrote George Farquhar a few hundred years ago, and it still applies. Only not quite the way that he meant it. For it is both a scandal and a crime that children in 21st Century London can …
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Sir Simon Milton appointed Deputy Mayor Wembley Park Sports Ground protestors refuse to budge Ronnie Kray prison barter artwork under the hammer Prince Charles pops down the East End Organisations sign up for the London Child Poverty Pledge (to alleviate it, that is) Image taken …
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The freebie sheets are to get a bit of artistic credibility: they are to be recycled into sculpture. For some strange reason Ken is sending some bus drivers on a trip to Beijing. Some of London’s buildings are to get a green makeover. Shameful: London …
