Booker winner Douglas Stuart opens up about the childhood grief and poverty that shapes his novels. As well the inspiration for new novel John of John and the reality of lives erased by history.
At this point, what is stopping them from just hauling your ass in and fixing you? Mandatory Comic Day Transcript This is a transcript of…
Nearly half of parents are struggling to afford food for their children more now than five years ago
New research warns that family hardship has deepened despite years of post-pandemic support measures, worsening child food hunger. The survey of 2,500 UK parents, which Opinium carried out for the Social Market Foundation, found that nearly half (44%) were struggling more today to afford food than five years ago. In addition, 1 in 5 (21%) […]
By The Canary
Absenteeism is a huge and seemingly intractable problem for the nation’s public schools. And Michigan has one of the worst attendance rates in the country. That makes it a prime target for researchers. In hundreds of schools, more than 3 out of 5 students were chronically absent before the pandemic. When classes resumed, chronic absenteeism […]
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — On a late February afternoon, a dozen or so Sacramento State students, all current or former foster youth, filed into the office of the university’s Guardian Scholars Program for a financial aid workshop that promised to teach them how to “get that bread and get ahead.” When program coordinator Gina Bryan projected […]
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Big Issue founder Lord John Bird writes for The Mirror on the number of young people out of work and education ahead of the publication of a major report by Alan Milburn
It seems like a tale of two school systems. Washington, D.C., has emerged as the fastest-improving school system in the nation, according to a major new analysis of student test scores released last week by researchers at Stanford, Harvard and Dartmouth. The Education Scorecard analysis, which compares more than 5,000 school districts across 38 states, […]
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The DWP has issued an update on the number of claimants facing deductions from their Universal Credit entitlement
Schools routinely administer academic assessments to get a handle on what incoming students know, and how best to help them learn more. They should do the same for what’s going on inside a student’s heart, taking a lesson from “the toughest prep school in America,” which Benedictine monks have run for more than 150 years […]
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Across the country’s urban centers, young men are being recruited into political militias that offer quick cash, fleeting power and little chance of escape.
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Here comes another political-posturing project from Brussels.
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EU officials link economic hardship to rising support for right-wing parties—but their strategy risks missing the deeper causes of voter anger.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has quietly started looking for suppliers to provide covert surveillance cameras for its vehicles to spy on benefit claimants. An early engagement notice on the government’s Find a Tender service reveals the DWP’s plans to deploy this technology to monitor welfare claimants in real-time. And naturally, it plans […]
By Hannah Sharland
The risk of poverty—particularly affecting families with children and pension-age residents—cannot be reduced through isolated short-term measures alone, according to an interim evaluation report by the Ministry of Welfare on social protection and labour market policy, which the government has taken note of. The report assesses the implementation of the Social Protection and Labour Market…
This is my every so often request for you to support my crowdfund for legal and living expenses. I do have some legal news that I need to process before I pick it apart here. It frees me to now point out that Sara Innamarato’s administration is not what we were led to vote for. […]
A professor at Furman University told the Alaska Legislature Task Force on Education Funding Wednesday afternoon that standardized test results might not be the most appropriate set of data on which to base education policy decisions. During a routine presentation on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation’s Report Card, Paul Thomas […]
New research published by Results UK to mark World Health Day calls on the UK to meet its responsibilities to the countries most affected by child undernutrition. The report found that these countries experience at least $310bn in trade-related illicit financial flows (IFFs). And it says the UK must transform its response. Trading Hunger: How […]
By The Canary
The generational warfare promoted by centrists and the Right, who have long been desperate to cut and privatize Social Security, is a fool’s solution to what ails the system. Taxing the rich is the answer.
“Total boomer luxury communism” is the Right’s latest attempt to convince younger Americans to slash their own future benefits under the guise of sticking it to older generations.…
The figure is down from 7.8% a decade ago.
It’s obvious why London has the highest level of child poverty in the UK. Newly published data has revealed that it is one of the most economically unequal places in the country. London poverty Poverty levels are high in the capital, with a reported 38% of children living in relative poverty compared to 27% in […]
By James Wright
It was such a pleasure to work with these thirty-one amazing authors who each contributed a vignette to my latest book, Digital Inclusion in an Unequal World published by Routledge on 7th April 2026. Read or listen to all their … Continue reading →
Up to 500,000 votes allegedly influenced in Hungary through vote-buying, intimidation, and coercion.
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“Armageddon” was the reaction of one expert after Iran’s double strike on Qatar’s vast liquefied natural gas terminal.
Take Back Power supporters have been redistributing food from supermarkets to local foodbanks across the country this morning. Take Back Power is a nonviolent civil-resistance group, demanding that the UK government establish a ‘House of the People’. This is a permanent citizen-led assembly with the power to tax extreme wealth. From around 8.30am on 14 […]
By The Canary
Donald Trump’s efforts to blockade Cuba’s fuel supply aim to create chaos. Now more than ever, Cuba needs practical international solidarity to resist US imperialist bullying.
For years, the US establishment has blamed the Cuba’s economic problems on socialism, incompetence, and mismanagement. (Yamil Lage / AFP via Getty Images)
US president Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco…
Food bank charity Trussell has released its figures for 2025. And they show that it provided more than 2.6 million emergency food parcels during the year. A parcel typically contains three days’ supplies for one person. The figures also include some seven day packages. And Trussell acknowledges that there are thousands of other charities and […]
By The Canary
The bulk of the money Missouri gives to its crisis pregnancy centers comes from federal funds meant to assist families experiencing poverty with basic necessities and child care, Republican Rep. Jason Smith said on the U.S. House floor in January. As many as $3 of every $4 for pregnancy centers in Missouri was from the […]
World leaders’ relentless focus on economic growth is a key driver of social inequality and extreme poverty. That same centering of profit at all costs is fuelling the climate crisis and hastening the death of our planet. But then, the Canary would say that, wouldn’t we? We’re a bunch of rabid leftists who probably read Marx […]
By Alex/Rose Cocker
In a recent study, Stanford researchers quantified the cost of lifting people out of poverty globally, providing a framework to inform future policy decisions.
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For 50 years, St. Francis Inn in Philadelphia has served the poorest and most vulnerable people in Kensington.
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