Fact checks focused on homelessness, poverty, inequality and social mobility
Economy, Business & Finance
Living in a deprived area doesn’t necessarily mean a person is deprived. Around 48% of areas in Glasgow were among the 20% most deprived in Scotland. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Media reports show that at least some individual nurses and trainees have visited food banks. We've not found any evidence on how widespread this is. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Around four million children in the UK were living in relative poverty in the UK, once housing costs are accounted for, although that’s just one way to measure poverty. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
What does "rich" actually mean? And how rich is "rich"? There are wealthy individuals with low incomes, and there are high-income people who have accumulated little wealth. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
We don’t know how many people use food banks in total. The Trussell Trust, which is estimated to run around half of all food banks in the UK, says it had around 560,000 people using its services. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Latest figures suggest two million pensioners are in relative poverty, but the rate is much lower than it was decades ago. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Research by a number of think tanks has found that the average pensioner income, after housing costs have been included, is now above that of the average person of working age. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
The basic state pension went up by slightly more under Labour up to 2010 than under Conservative Chancellors since then, once inflation is factored in. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
There are lots of ways to measure poverty. Some show that child and pensioner poverty have increased slightly in recent years, but others show it has been stable or fallen. Read
Economy, Business & Finance
Men and women are still some way off equal in the UK labour market, although we have the highest female employment rate on record, the overall gender pay gap is falling, and more women are on boards. Read
