The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

SNP make Budget demand as £600m bedroom tax mitigation figure revealed

THE SNP have urged Labour to take further action to tackle poverty in the first Budget of Andy Burnham’s premiership ...

The National (Scotland) · 10h ago

From poverty to the presidency: How Brazil’s Lula overcame prison, tragedy and losing his finger in remarkable rise

IN FOCUS: Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been re-elected president of Brazil for an unprecedented fourth time. His journey from deprivation to the seat of power despite multiple setbacks is as extraordinary as his latest comeback victory, writes James C. Reynolds

The Independent UK · 13h ago

More than 40 music stars recorded ‘We Are the World’ in 1985, raising $100 million

In 1985, more than 40 music stars came together to record “We Are the World”, a charity single written by Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson and produced by Quincy Jones to raise funds and awareness for famine relief in Ethiopia. Recorded on 28 January, the song sold more than seven…

The Times of India · 15h ago

Health insurance: 5 gaps in your policy that could leave you with a bigger bill at the time of claim

This is a global problem. A World Health Organization report found that out-of-pocket expenses for medicines and other medical products push up to 12% of households in European countries into poverty or deepen their financial hardship.

The Economic Times · Oct 26

I Spent Five Years Interviewing Millionaires and the Poor. The Biggest Difference Wasn’t Money or Education

For five years I sat across from 233 wealthy people (177 of them self-made) and 128 people living in poverty and asked them the same...

Saving Advice · Oct 25

Haines tribute speeches to open parliament, but Labor mustn’t overlook broader causes of boiling anger

Poverty, health and dislocation are fuelling political anger. Labor can’t ignore this in response to alleged attack on Indi MP

The Guardian - AU · Oct 25

New York mother jailed for kidnapping her child wins fresh hearing over $500 child-support cap

A New York woman serving a seven-year prison sentence for kidnapping her child has won a fresh hearing over unpaid child support. Chelsea Four-Rosenbaum had sought to limit her debt to $500, arguing that her income remained below federal poverty guidelines while imprisoned. An appeals court ruled that her request…

The Times of India · Oct 25

What Satyajit Ray's Method Teaches About Doing Careful Work on a Small Budget

Satyajit Ray shot Pather Panchali over three years with no studio backing, a crew that was learning on the job, and a budget that ran out before the film did. The West Bengal government eventually stepped in to finish it. When it screened at Cannes in 1956, it won Best…

Times Life · Oct 25

How One Invasive Tree Quietly Dismantled the Grasslands of Kutch

In the 1960s, the Forest Department planted a thorned, fast-growing legume across the arid expanses of Kutch to hold the soil and green a district that looked, to outside eyes, like it was losing the fight against the desert. The tree was Prosopis juliflora, imported from the Americas, and it…

Times Life · Oct 24

Millions around the world are starving. Here’s what the UK needs to be doing

COMMENT: Britain should use its G20 presidency to make the case that preventing conflict and hunger is central to a safer and more resilient world, writes Jean-Michel Grand

The Independent UK · Oct 23