Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

Brett Favre solicited welfare money from the poorest state in the nation and it’s time to pay up

Brett Favre’s involvement in a $77 million welfare scam is just another example of how Mississippi continues to fail its most vulnerable people — and everyone involved should be held accountable.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Lebanon to vote in first election since financial meltdown

Lebanese vote on Sunday in the first election since their country's economic collapse, a test of whether Iran-backed Hezbollah and its allies can preserve their parliamentary majority amidst soaring poverty and anger at ruling parties.

Reuters

‘An insult to the whole community’: Sutton-in-Ashfield people react to MP’s food bank comments

Lee Anderson’s suggestion that food poverty is down to not being able to cook and budget properly is ‘out of touch’, says council leader

The Guardian - UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

A guaranteed basic income could end poverty, so why isn’t it happening?

On April 27, Senator Diane Bellemare published an op-ed in the Globe and Mail opposing a proposal for guaranteed basic income where all Canadian citizens and residents over the age of 17 would receive unconditional guaranteed sufficient income.

The Conversation

This is what the cost of living crisis means for those with a terminal diagnosis

The government’s refusal to raise benefits is forcing those facing the final days of their lives to choose between food and warmth, says Helen Barnard, associate director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation

The Guardian - UK

I used the code ‘package for Sandy’ in Morrisons to see if it worked

The scheme is available in 497 stores nationwide helping fight against period poverty

Wales Online

'Incompetent' PM and Chancellor blamed as UK heads for recession

BORIS Johnson’s “catalogue of failure” is inflicting poverty on millions of people, the Scottish Greens have warned as the UK was forecast…

The National (Scotland)

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

‘We can’t eat a new road’: Guyanese voice fears over true cost of Exxon’s oil bonanza

Multibillion-dollar deal promising to lift country out of poverty may be false dawn with dire impact on climate, warn campaigners

The Guardian - UK

Belfast free reusable sanitary products pilot programme sees "incredible" demand

Council initiative indicates levels of period poverty in the city

Belfast Live

Tory MP doubles down on 'disgraceful' food bank rant as he slams 'gutter press'

A TORY MP who has been lambasted by the opposition, charities and even his own government has doubled down on “disgraceful” comments about food…

The National (Scotland)

Nearly 100 North East people die in poverty every week new report reveals

Many who die in poverty are terminally ill working age people and the end-of-life charity Marie Curie today launches a campaign to help them

Chronicle Live

Notts MP Lee Anderson defends food banks comments after saying people use them because they 'cannot cook properly'

He was backed by Conservative MP for Mansfield Ben Bradley

Nottingham Post

More than 90,000 people ‘die in poverty in UK every year’

Marie Curie said the UK is facing a ‘cost-of-dying crisis,’ as people spend the end of their lives in poverty.

The Independent UK

Tory MP Lee Anderson defends saying food bank users ‘cannot cook properly’

The Ashfield MP said people use food banks because they ‘cannot budget’.

The Independent UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Nottingham Post

Tory MP defends Lee Anderson and says 'poor basic skills' trapping people in cycle of poverty

He has come to the defence of Ashfield's Tory MP Lee Anderson whose comments have been the cause for controversy

Manchester Evening News

How much money you need to live in the UK as the cost of living crisis continues?

The cost of living in the UK is soaring, with many families now plunged into poverty. This is how much money you need to live in the UK

The Guardian - UK

Tory MP blames food poverty on lack of cooking skills

Lee Anderson provokes furious response by telling Commons that food banks are largely unnecessary

The Independent UK

Tory MP urged to apologise over claim food bank users ‘cannot cook properly’

Labour branded his remarks ‘beyond belief’, whilst the Liberal Democrats described them as ‘disgraceful’ and the SNP ‘reprehensible’.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Daily Record

Scottish charity shares simple steps to help people feeling overwhelmed by debt

Christians Against Poverty research shows more people are struggling to manage their problem debt.

Reuters

Lebanese state violated human rights by mismanaging crisis, UN poverty envoy says

Lebanon's government and its central bank have committed human rights violations by impoverishing people through the "callous destruction" of the country's economy, an independent United Nations report said on Wednesday.

Salon

Republicans' "pro-life" baby food pivot

When it comes to the issue of abortion, "pro-life" Republicans have always been bedeviled by hypocrisy accusations

The Guardian - US

Are Canadians being driven to assisted suicide by poverty or healthcare crisis?

Critics argue laws are being misused to punish the poor but experts say cases represent country’s failure to care for its most vulnerable citizens

Daily Record

Long-awaited Queen's Speech draws criticism from MP and charities

Renfrewshire SNP man Gavin Newlands brands blueprint for government as a "lost opportunity"

Manchester Evening News

What happened when I asked for ‘a package for Sandy’ in four Morrisons stores

The Bolton-born scheme is available in 497 stores nationwide helping fight against period poverty

Tribune News Service

Editorial: What does it take to rise out of poverty? Baltimore launches a pilot program to find out

Fewer than 10% of Marylanders live below the poverty line, but in Baltimore, the ratio is much higher, with one in five people living in poverty. There is no shortage of reasons why the rate in the state’s largest city is stubbornly high. Often, poverty simply begets more poverty. Individuals…

1 … 156 157 158 159

People

Marjorie Taylor Greene

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Loughborough University

77 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.