17K views · 65 reactions | As part of his field work for a damning report into poverty in the UK, Philip Alston, the UN rapporteur, visited Newcastle. He found people struggling to negotiate the benefits system and going hungry. He called it a ‘social calamity and an economic disaster’. Plus: John Kerry on how Donald Trump has undermined global institutions. | The Guardian | Facebook

More than half of all children are growing up in poverty across the whole of Middlesbrough. Sky's Greg Milam visits the town where six out of seven children grow up in poverty. https://trib.al/D1Klb59 | Sky News

📺 "The Government has an opportunity to lift 300,000 children out of poverty." Ellie Chowns discusses Labour's decision not to lift the cruel two-child benefit cap on LBC Cross Question. | Green Party of England and Wales