The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilization itself. But today the Tigris is dying. Human activity and climate change have choked its once mighty flow through Iraq, where -- with its twin river the Euphrates --…

Warning that the world is in “great peril,” the head of the United Nations says leaders meeting in person for the first time in three years must tackle conflicts and climate catastrophes, increasing poverty and inequality — and address divisions among major powers that have gotten worse since Russia invaded…

There are now more than a quarter of children in the city enduring relative poverty

The Star Project initiative provides a family with everything they need to make a healthy meal and helps reduce food waste in the process

The study recommends, monthly incentives for children who return to schools and uniforms and coverage under mid-day meal scheme up to Class 12.

John Holland McKendrick, professor of social justice at Glasgow Caledonian University, hopes the police and prosecutors will go easy on desperate offenders.

Another woman who works full time says she can't even afford to buy a sofa for her home

The DWP limit on benefits income may mean that 100,000 families will be no better off after long-awaited rise next April says Child Poverty Action Group

The Child Poverty Action Group has warned of a “growing gulf” between the cap and benefit rates and the cost of living