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In Poverty

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#InPoverty: Why are homes allowed to stand empty in a housing crisis?

“What on Earth are they doing allowing people to live and die on the street when buildings like this are sitting empty?”
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#InPoverty: The stark reality of health poverty as Wales struggles to breathe

Deprivation and rising levels of inequality are making the worse off unhealthier and in the fight for health, Wales cannot catch its breath
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#InPoverty: Welsh employment is on the up yet child poverty is still a concern

Are statistics showing a rise in employment an attempt to conceal that Wales has the highest child poverty in the UK?
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#InPoverty: Then and now, the link between poverty and prostitution

Throughout history and to this day, poverty is often the underlying cause of prostitution. Looking back, we see very little has changed
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#InPoverty: Wales’ hidden gambling problem costs our NHS millions per year

As gambling addiction is recategorised as a public health issue, is enough being done for the 95,000 problem gamblers in Wales?
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#InPoverty: The awful “circle of decline” of social isolation and rural poverty

Rural poverty is off the beaten track, but 23% of rural Wales is in poverty, and stuck in a cycle of few services and social isolation
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#InPoverty: Millennials are the ones left to pick up the mess of generation X

A competitive job market and rising day-to-day costs concludes Cardiff millennials will continue to struggle thanks to generation X’s greed
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#InPoverty: What is there for the women who cannot afford period products?

Period poverty is a real issue in 2018. How is it being addressed and what are the options for the women affected?
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#InPoverty: What will it take to bring the arts to Adamsdown’s community?

Not safe, not attractive, and a ‘tough’ place to be - this is still how this underserved area is perceived. So how could culture bloom?
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#InPoverty: Almost half of prisoners in Cardiff are homeless once released

A look at why released prisoners are going into homelessness and entering a cycle of reoffending after serving their sentence
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