Britain’s welfare state is making people destitute and pushes them toward “survival crime” in order to eat, a major U.K. study has found.
Preliminary findings of research into increased restrictions on receiving benefits in the U.K., led by the University of York and reported in The Guardian, show that in some cases children are missing school because parents cannot pay the bus fare and families are missing meals.
Increased debt and eviction threats, as well as anxiety and ill health, were all shown to be common outcomes of benefit sanctions. The all-party parliamentary group on food poverty and hunger …read more
Source: Newsweek
