The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

'I tried the package for Sandy code word at four different Morrisons to see if it works'

A woman visited four different Morrisons stores to try out the ‘package for Sandy’ code, a period poverty initiative that was launched by the supermarket chain last year

Daily Mirror · May 13, 2022

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 · May 13, 2022

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 · May 13, 2022

'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) · May 12, 2022

‘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 · May 12, 2022

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

Council initiative indicates levels of period poverty in the city

Belfast Live · May 12, 2022

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) · May 12, 2022

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 · May 12, 2022

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 · May 12, 2022

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 · May 11, 2022