News

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Public funding cuts hit the poorest hardest 26 August 2010

New Institute for Fiscal Studies research makes use of analysis published by the Department for Work and Pensions and attempts to reflect the impact of all the benefit cuts announced in the coalition Government's first Budget. It shows that, once... Read more...

London's Poverty Profile: new data uploaded 1 July 2010

All of the data on this site has now been updated with the most recently available data. Most have been updated with data from 2009 and, in some cases, 2010, so reflect some, if not all, of the recession. The... Read more...

City Parochial becomes Trust for London 30 June 2010

City Parochial Foundation, the independent charitable trust who commissioned and manages London's Poverty Profile, amalgamated with its sister fund Trust for London on 30 June 2010. Our new organisation will be known as Trust for London and will continue to... Read more...

VAT rise will hit the poor hardest 23 June 2010

The rise in VAT is likely to disproportionately affect the poorest families, according to Save the Children. VAT on goods and services is going up from 17.5% to 20% from 4 January 2011. Food, children's clothes, newspaper and books will... Read more...

Mayor announces increase in Living Wage 10 June 2010

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has announced that he is increasing the London Living Wage to £7.85 per hour, a rise of 25p. The rise represents an increase of 3.3 per cent on last year's figure, and an overall... Read more...

London the 'most unequal city in the West', says academic 5 May 2010

London has become the most unequal city in the western world, according to a leading academic. 'Injustice: Why Social Inequality Persists', a new book by Professor Danny Dorling of the University of Sheffield, shows that the richest tenth of Londoners... Read more...

New National Minimum Wage rates announced 29 March 2010

The Government has accepted recommendations from the Low Pay Commission (LPC) on the new rates for the National Minimum Wage, which will come into force on 1 October 2010. The new hourly rates will be: £5.93 for workers aged 21... Read more...

'Worklessness costs London £5bn a year' 17 March 2010

New research commissioned by London Councils suggests that worklessness costs the capital more than £5 billion a year with 1.5 million people out of work in London - around 30 per cent of the working age population. The figure of... Read more...

Bus fare rise hits low-paid Londoners 8 February 2010

Low paid workers who rely on public transport to get to work have been hit especially hard by the higher fares on London's buses and tubes that came into effect at the start of the New Year, according to Peter... Read more...

London's children in deepest poverty 26 January 2010

Research published by Save the Children shows that a higher proportion of London's children are living in severe poverty than in any other region in the UK. The research found that, at the end of 2008, 13% of children in... Read more...