Tag: food poverty
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Trussell Trust figures show a staggering 214 percent increase in demand for emergency food supplies over five years in Northern Ireland
Unite community will raise demand for scrapping of Universal Credit as a core issue of concern in upcoming election Food bank stats expose total inadequacy of ‘fig-leaf’ mitigations package negotiated by Northern Ireland Executive parties Albert Hewitt, Unite Community Coordinator challenged local political parties to call for the scrapping of Universal Credit in advance of…
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Universal Credit causing misery and hardship for families in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland households claiming the new all-in-one benefit, Universal Credit are being plunged into misery and hardship Westminster government must stop the roll out of Universal Credit before even more families are forced into poverty 23rd May: As part of a UK-wide Day of Action, Unite Community members and campaigners will be demonstrating from 3-4pm…
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Trussell Trust figures expose NI Executive’s failure to adopt Living Wage and protect those on benefits
Numbers dependent on emergency food aid in Northern Ireland surges by 43.1% Northern Ireland figures demonstrate failure to address poverty pay and growth of ‘just about managing’ households November 21st: Speaking in response to figures released by the Trussell Trust for uptake of emergency food aid provided by its food banks, Unite Community Coordinator, Albert…
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Food poverty: Unite and Mandate issue county-by-county figures on food poverty
One-in-ten suffer food poverty nationally, figures higher in some counties Union leaders call for immediate aid to organisations providing food assistance, followed by Emergency Relief Budget in 2014 December 15th: Trade unions Mandate and Unite today issued Hungry for Action, a county-by-county breakdown of food poverty in Ireland. Nationally, one-in-ten people suffer food poverty, but…