Poverty
- HealthYahoo Life UK
Young women driven to self-harm by poverty and debt, study finds
Deprivation is often overlooked as a reason for mental health issues among young women.
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Expensive taped-up trainers costing £400 are accused of glorifying poverty
The shoes are described as featuring "crumply hold-it-all-together tape details" with a "grungy rubber cupsole".
- EntertainmentAOL
Millionaire gives single mum a £120,000 flat for free
Marco Robinson, a 49-year-old multimillionaire and property mogul, decided to share his good fortune, by buying a flat three-bedroom flat in Preston, and giving it away completely free to someone who desperately needed it. In the end he decided to
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A fifth of British women feel uncomfortable discussing their periods with their friends
Why are we so afraid to talk about something totally natural?
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Tampons might be given out for free in Scotland to tackle period poverty
According to The Times, Scottish Labour’s inequalities spokeswoman Monica Lennon used International Women’s Day as an opportunity to announce her bid to bring forward a member’s bill at Holyrood. If the proposal went through, schools would be legally required to provide free sanitary products for both students and staff.
- HealthAOL
Middle income families are the 'new poor'
Work isn't paying for huge numbers of middle income families. A new report has revealed that the lives of these families are similar in many ways to those on low incomes: half of them rent now rather than own their own home, and almost a
2-min read - BusinessAOL
Paltry employer pension contributions will leave us in poverty in old age
Three in five of the employers who have introduced auto-enrolment pensions are only offering staff the absolute minimum they are required to under government rules. The experts are warning that this will leave a generation of workers who cannot
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