The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

We’ve just lost one of the world’s finest writers about inequality and class – and the business of being alive in the United States today. Barbara Ehrenreich, best known for her “classic of social justice literature”, Nickel and Dimed, died on Thursday, aged 81.

Sharon Graham, general secretary of Unite, says workers are 'simply no longer prepared to accept poverty wages'

As Sri Lankans battle a calamitous decline in living standards, they find themselves forced to skip meals, ration medicine and turn to firewood in place of cooking gas.

The union’s general secretary said workers are ‘simply no longer prepared to accept poverty wages’.

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who launched drastic reforms that helped end the Cold War and precipitated the breakup of the Soviet Union, is set to be buried Saturday in a relatively low-key ceremony snubbed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin's refusal to declare a state funeral reflects its…

A poll found that just under 48% of people with children at school this academic year said they 'possibly' or 'definitely' will wash uniform items by hand

Venice film festival: Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell dazzle in Luca Guadagnino’s blood-soaked parable of poverty and rebellion

The party said it would set aside £1.75bn to insulate and introduce green upgrades to homes in Wales

A poll found that just under 48% of people with children at school this academic year said they 'possibly' or 'definitely' will wash uniform items by hand rather a washing machine in order to save money

Everything you need to know about the poverty threshold in the United Kingdom

"Poverty doesn't stop at secondary school."