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Record number of UK children in poverty: figures

More children are living in poverty across the United Kingdom than ever before, according to official government figures released Thursday. Previous studies have shown that growing social inequalities in the G7 nation have hit children’s health and rising numbers are forced to use food banks. An estimated 4.33 million children were living in low-income households […]

Futures rise in run-up to inflation figures, retail sales data

By Bansari Mayur Kamdar and Shashwat Chauhan (Reuters) – Futures tracking Wall Street’s main stock indexes advanced on Thursday as investors awaited a raft of economic data, including the producer prices numbers, ahead of the Federal Reserve’s meeting next week. All eyes are on the February producer prices data, due at 8:30 a.m. ET, which […]

Domestic economic growth slowed more than expected in 2023, figures show

The Republic’s domestic economy expanded by just 0.5 per cent last year, far below the 2.2 per cent expected by the Department of Finance following a continued fall in investment in the final quarter, official data showed on Friday. With Ireland’s large multinational sector often distorting gross domestic product (GDP), officials prefer to use modified […]

Pentagon walks back Austin’s Gaza casualty figures

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told Congress on Thursday that more than 25,000 women and children had been killed by Israel in Gaza since October 7, but the Pentagon later clarified that estimate, saying the figure came from the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry, not U.S. intelligence. During a congressional hearing, Austin was […]

Third of workers have no private pension cover, figures show

A third of workers aged between 20 and 69 have no private pension cover and will depend on a State pension in retirement, a new report shows. Figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) reveal there has been a slight improvement in private pension cover in the last year, rising from 66 per cent in […]