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Tag: Poverty

It’s the most wasteful time of the year.

Posted on 22nd December 202022nd December 2020 by Tharushi Wijesiri

On the 12th day of Christmas, my true love will discard 6 million trees, 2 million turkeys, 11 million roasties, 17 million sprouts, 114 thousand tonnes of plastic, 74 million mince pies and around a billion Christmas cards.

Rashford’s free school meals campaign inspires Leeds residents to fill the gap left by Downing Street

Posted on 5th November 202015th November 2020 by Jack Valentine

England and Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford’s campaign to extend the free school meals programme over the holidays has been bolstered in the last few weeks as local authorities, small businesses and residents came together […]

Deciding Who Gets to Eat: The winners and losers of the international poverty crisis

Posted on 29th October 202029th October 2020 by Hannah Spruce

Hannah Spruce talks about the widening wealth gap and rise of global poverty amidst the pandemic.

Marcus Rashford: The Goal-Scoring Activist

Posted on 20th October 202020th October 2020 by Calum Pinches

Marcus Rashford recently forced the government to change their policy on free school meals. Sports editor Calum Pinches profiles the Man United forward, and his own experience with hunger.

Lockdown is a patchwork, not a blanket

Posted on 27th April 202027th April 2020 by Amy Ramswell

Where are you right now? A house? A flat? A care home? A prison? Homeless? They say coronavirus doesn’t discriminate, but the distribution of property is the product of a rigid, highly discriminatory class system. […]

A World on Fire: What widespread protests worldwide mean for the future of political activism

Posted on 4th November 20194th November 2019 by Ananya Sriram

As I write this, there are protests happening in Ethiopia, Chile, Lebanon, Iraq, Hong Kong, Barcelona, Australia, Paris and London – to name a few examples. With people around the world subjecting themselves to tear […]

Knife Crime and Race: Correlation Without Cause?

Posted on 22nd March 2019 by Eloise Barry

In 2018, 285 people died from a fatal stab wound in the UK, the highest figure since 1946. The rise of knife crime and its causes have been debated for many years now; cuts to […]

‘Tis the Season…For Shocking Increases In Food Bank Reliance

Posted on 6th December 201826th March 2019 by Isabel Ralphs

Following a successful trial last Summer, supermarket giant Sainsbury’s are relaunching a new initiative designed to encourage increased donations to local food banks. The idea – coming from a group of teenagers in Exeter doing […]

Citizens UK Challenges Companies to Commit to the ‘Real Living Wage’

Posted on 20th November 201815th March 2019 by Laus D. Jørgensen

As an introduction to the ‘Real Living Wage’ week, beginning Monday the 5th of November, Citizens UK has called upon University of Leeds to join the movement of companies that pay the ‘real Living Wage’. […]

Trouble in Paradise: Avoidance, Evasion and Offshore Accounts

Posted on 24th November 201724th November 2017 by The Gryphon Web Editor

The Gryphon shines a light on the latest leak of British celebrities hiding their wealth in offshore funds and exposing the most vulnerable in society. On the 5th November 2017, millions of documents were made public […]

Employed and in Poverty – Britain’s New Underbelly

Posted on 10th November 2017 by The Gryphon Web Editor

Stephen Armstrong, an investigative journalist, published his book ‘The New Poverty’ this year, in an attempt to document a troubling new trend in Britain: in-work poverty. The Gryphon spoke to him last week as he […]

A Ticket To Nowhere? Councils ‘Help’ The Homeless

Posted on 27th October 2017 by The Gryphon Web Editor

The BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire Show has reported that councils across the country are tackling homelessness by buying one-way train tickets for rough-sleepers in their cities. It is believed that some councils have spent up to […]

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