A new report, launched in Brussels on Monday by the Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, shows that a European financial transaction tax (FTT) would boost growth in Europe by at least 0.25%. It would also raise revenue to combat poverty and climate change at home and abroad, and help re-balance the economy by making long-term investment more worthwhile than short-term, high frequen...

The spokesman from the country's top poverty reduction authority on Tuesday blamed the "foolish behavior" of a county government in Central China's Hunan province for posting cheerful remarks about being named a State-level poverty-stricken area. A picture posted online shows...

Sheffield Liberal Democrats were today exposed for trying to cut a Labour scheme to invest in tackling fuel poverty. As part of the Council's Housing Revenue Account Business Plan, Labour have outlined plans to prioritise investment in heating systems, which are important in tackling fuel poverty a problem faced by many tenants in the current climate of high energy prices and fuel bills. As a...

Labour attacks "extravagant" streetscape scheme. As the £25 million Exhibition Road streetscape scheme opened in South Kensington, North Kensington Labour Councillors criticised the Council's extravagant spending on a scheme aimed at tourists. A short bus ride away are four of the poorest areas in the country. In Golborne Ward, 51% of the children live in poverty, residents endure high ...

Ed Miliband has argued that breaking up the UK will undermine efforts to tackle the recession and poverty by creating artificial competition between England and Scotland.

Alan Whitehead, Labour MP for Southampton Test, has pressed Chris Huhne to reverse his decision to allow energy companies to substantially reduce the help they offer to make our homes more energy efficient. The Tory Government is cancelling Labour's Warm Front and CERT levies on energy companies, which have helped thousands of people at risk of fuel poverty in Southampton and the south to get...

Many millions of Indians now stand to be driven towards poverty and hunger, as the sudden removal of import tariffs is likely to have a devastating effect on farmers - suddenly finding their markets swamped by European produce. This is one of those rare times I agree with Peter Mandelson on globalisation.

Child maintenance is a life-line for many single parent families, whose children are twice as likely to live in poverty as those of couple families. The Government’s proposals to attach charges to access the Child Support Agency will see vulnerable families with no option but to seek state help to gain maintenance pushed further into

Despite escaping one major ambush, Lord Freud cannot have been looking forward to Amendment 59, moved by the Bishop of Ripon and Leeds. A short amendment; Clause 94, page 63, line 25, after “benefits” insert “with the exclusion of child benefit” it addressed issues of child poverty, as the Bishop noted, The Government’s assessment of

Iain Duncan Smith insists welfare reform plans are not designed to "punish" as he issues appeal to peers and bishops not to block his proposals.