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Levels of child poverty are on the rise in parts of Scotland and have been described as “staggering” by the director of the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG).

Rates of unemployment are at historically low levels in Scotland and they are lower here than in the UK as a whole.

As many as 700,000 people across Scotland are believed to be already in or at serious risk of falling into problem debt.

Giving every adult in Scotland a sum of £2,400 per year as a form of ‘basic income’ could have the effect of largely eradicating destitution across the country.

The total number of bankruptcy cases or entries into Protected Trust Deeds (PTDs) recorded across Scotland increased by more than 20 per cent last year.

Edinburgh should introduce strict rent controls as part of an effort to tackle poverty and serious financial difficulty across the city.

Food banks operated by the Trussell Trust handed out more than 1.5 million emergency food parcels in the 12 months up to the end of March.

A bill has been put forward at the Scottish parliament that would help ensure that women and girls across the country can access free sanitary products when they need them.

As many as 46 million British adults could be in line for a payout from the financial services giant MasterCard after a tribunal ruled that a class action lawsuit could potentially be brought against the company.

More than 300,000 Scottish children are living in households that are close to the edge from a financial perspective.

Nearly 1.8 million people in the UK will receive a pay rise from April 1st, following a 4.9 per cent increase in the National Living Wage.

Thousands of students at universities across the UK are developing gambling habits that risk plunging them into significant amounts of debt.