The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

Delivering the 2023 budget address that will serve as her reelection platform, Lightfoot’s $16.4 billion spending plan has a laundry list of new and continued investments intended to ease violence, homelessness and poverty.

The local authority has outlined its education recovery and improvement strategy for season 2022/23, with tackling the poverty-related attainment gap a primary focus.

President William Ruto has nominated Njuguna Ndung'u to head Kenya’s National Treasury. A Central Bank of Kenya governor for eight years between 2007 and 2015, Ndung'u is also an accomplished researcher and a University of Nairobi academic. He has extensive expertise in macroeconomics (inflation, economic growth, national income and unemployment)…

The former Levelling Up Secretary says the region has grappled with 'historic challenges'

From stress about homelessness to illnesses caused by food poverty and cold homes, this financial chaos will take a heavy toll, says public health professor Devi Sridhar

ANTI-POVERTY campaigners are calling for action as a “heart-breaking” report revealed a “bleak picture of a society in crisis"

Lee Anderson made the comments during a speech to young Conservatives at the party's conference in which he also queried the existence of food poverty, called people who set up food banks 'do gooders' and urged others to rip up their TV licence

Lee Anderson lashed out at "do gooders" who run food banks, questioned whether there is food poverty in the UK, called on people to "rip up" their TV licence and doubled down on his claim that meals only need to cost 30p in an eventful address to young Tories

India should address economic inequality, says general secretary Hosabale