Particularly since we know the long term costs; personal , social and economic of raising children in poverty. Rohena
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Subject: [SDOH] Austerity, Welfare Cuts, and the Right to Food in the UK | HRW
More from the UK, from Human Rights Watch
Tens of thousands of families in the United Kingdom every year do not have enough food to live on and are turning to sources of non-state charitable
aid. This new phenomenon of growing hunger for some of the least well-off people in the country, has emerged alongside a wide-ranging and draconian restructuring of the country’s welfare system since 2010. With reductions in welfare support year on year,
the number of people, including families with children, going hungry is rising at an alarming rate and represents a troubling development in the world’s fifth largest economy.
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