Birmingham Post - Tag - poverty

Neil Elkes: A chance to change lives in Birmingham

Birmingham Post — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:40:00 GMT

Ladywood is frequently highlighted as the constituency with the UK’s highest unemployment rate. Life-expectancy, infant mortality and child poverty rates are also among the worst in the UK – and this has barely changed over the last 30 years.

Jonathan Walker: Being poor in the UK just got worse

Birmingham Post — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:45:00 GMT

The End Child Poverty campaign published a report earlier this year showing 31 per cent of children in Birmingham were living in poverty in 2012.

Bishop of Birmingham speaks out against 'immoral' selfish society

Birmingham Post — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 06:00:00 GMT

The Bishop of Birmingham is leading a moral backlash against Britain’s get rich quick, me-me society

Bishop of Birmingham attacks 'immorality' of continued poverty

Birmingham Post — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 06:45:00 GMT

The Bishop of Birmingham has hit out at the “immorality” of a society prepared to sit back and allow families to live in poverty.

More than half of children in Aston and Nechells living below poverty line

Birmingham Post — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 07:30:00 GMT

More than half of children living in some of Birmingham’s most deprived areas are experiencing poverty, new figures have revealed.

Hundreds of children living in poverty in West Midlands, claims charity

Birmingham Post — Wed, 19 May 2010 06:15:00 GMT

More than 250 children are living in abject poverty in the West Midlands with some mothers forced to prostitution on the streets of Birmingham in order to survive, a new report has revealed.