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Housing in NI: Why “vacant domestic properties” are different than “houses without usual residents” and neither actually means just “empty homes”, plus other statistical pitfalls
11 April 2025
In a 24 February debate in the Assembly on a new deal for private renters, People Before Profit MLA Gerry Carroll said: “According to Land
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Food Banks in NI: Has the number of emergency parcels issued to children risen by 90%
14 February 2025
During an Assembly debate on emergency food parcels for children on 27 January, Alliance MLA Sian Mulholland said: “I rise not out of duty but
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Are UK child poverty rates over seven times higher than those in Scandinavia?
23 April 2024
On 26 March in a post on social media, BBC NI journalist Mandy McAuley made a claim about recent child poverty figures in the UK Articles
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Does Northern Ireland have the highest rate of child poverty in the UK?
2 May 2023
On 3 April, in a column for the Irish Times, campaigner Emma de Souza claimed: “Northern Ireland has the highest levels of child poverty in Articles
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Does the UK have more food banks than McDonald’s?
24 October 2022
Finding out the exact number of food banks in the UK is difficult. However, even by low estimates, there are far more food banks than
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Children living in poverty in Northern Ireland
25 February 2021
How many children in Northern Ireland live in poverty? Dr Julie-Ann Maney, a paediatrician who works at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, wrote Economy
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Is a food bank feeding 1 in 5 in Enniskillen?
29 August 2019
This claim is inaccurate. A formula by Trussell Trust results in 1,079 delivered food bank parcels representing an estimated 540 unique users. This would represent
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Are half of the people in Fermanagh and Omagh living in poverty?
12 February 2019
This claim is inaccurate. 25.1% of people in Fermanagh and Omagh lived in relative and/or absolute poverty, from 2012-15. The claim was corrected by the
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