While international attention focuses on ceasefire frameworks, Israel is openly advancing plans for a permanent expansion of its control over Gaza, writes RAMZY BAROUD
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GORDON McKAY explains why Unison is calling on the Scottish government to make use of its tax-raising powers to alleviate the poverty blighting the country
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FOUR million children live in poverty across the UK. One in four Scottish children live in relative poverty. Families lack basic income to make ends meet, and the gap between the poor and rich is getting bigger.
Two working parents with two children, on the “national living wage” are 11 per cent short of what you need to meet the costs of a no-frills lifestyle. It is almost double that for lone parents.
Not only are more children being pulled into poverty, research by the University of York shows that children living in poverty are being pulled deeper into poverty.
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