Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

Care home workers ‘almost twice as likely to be in poverty as average UK worker’

Details of how fairer pay can be provided for adult social care workers are due to be set out by Government.

Evening Standard

UK child poverty at ‘unbearable level’, warns paediatrician

A child poverty strategy had been due to be published in spring but was subsequently delayed until autumn to align with the Chancellor’s budget.

Evening Standard

Sudan’s war is an economic disaster: here’s how bad it could get

Since April 2023, Sudan has been engulfed in a devastating war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces. What began as a struggle for power has turned into a national catastrophe. More than 14 million people have been displaced. Health and education systems have collapsed and food…

The Conversation

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

How are poverty levels around the EU as the French rate hits a 30-year high?

In the past three years, at least 11 EU countries have seen an increase in poverty levels. Women and young adults are more likely to face poverty or social exclusion.

Euronews

Cuban Minister Resigns After Downplaying Poverty

The labor minister in economically depressed Cuba resigned Tuesday amid an uproar over her claim that people rummaging through garbage cans were only pretending to be poor and not truly desperate.

International Business Times

Don’t Believe the Wealth Haters – Most of the Wealthy in America Are Self-Made

If you find value in these articles, please share them with your inner circle and encourage them to Sign Up for my Rich Habits Daily...

Saving Advice

8 Places With High Incomes And Surprisingly High Bankruptcy Rates

We tend to associate bankruptcy with financial hardship, job loss, or systemic poverty. But new data reveals a surprising twist: some of the wealthiest communities...

Saving Advice

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

Rachel Reeves to announce £500m for investment in youth services projects

Funding for social impact bonds to help children facing mental health difficulties, school exclusion or crime

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s very personal to me’: Darren Jones on his £500m plan to fight child poverty

Treasury chief secretary says he wants to emulate New Labour support for community groups that changed his life

The Guardian - UK

10 Small Towns Where Poverty Rates Are Quietly Surging

The picturesque image of small-town America—charming main streets, close-knit communities, and affordable living—is being challenged by a quiet but alarming trend: rising poverty. While big...

Saving Advice

Nearly 1.7m children hit by two-child benefit cap as Labour urged to scrap ‘brutal’ policy

The number of children affected by the cap since Labour’s election victory has grown to 300,000

The Independent UK

The toxic effect of poverty on children’s health

Letters: The government must act to meet the rise in demand for mental health services in deprived areas, writes Dr Sarah Hughes, while Jan Pahl calls for an end to the two-child benefit cap

The Guardian - UK

50 Interesting Pics From Sweden That Show What’s So Special About It

It rose from backwardness and poverty into a highly developed post-industrial society, with a standard of living and life expectancy that rank among the highest in the world.

Bored Panda

Global Citizen takes its fight against poverty to the world's growing cities

Global Citizen is focusing on cities to combat extreme poverty amid global political gridlock

The Independent UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Labour’s welfare mess: attempting to hide its cuts triggered a rebellion too big to punish

Editorial: The bill’s passage through the Commons exposed moral fault lines in Labour and revived hard questions about the nature of the benefits changes

The Guardian - UK

Living standards are not improving for everyone

Letter: Dr Jenny Patient highlights poverty in Sheffield in response to remarks by the environment secretary, Steve Reed, on Labour’s progress

The Conversation

England’s family hubs plan aims to build on Sure Start’s success – but may struggle to overcome today’s child poverty levels

The government has announced its strategy for “giving every child the best start in life”, laying out proposals covering early years care, education and support in England.

The Conversation

Over 1.6 million children live in families made poorer by the two-child limit on benefits – new data

New government statistics released today show the reach of the two-child limit. There are 1,665,540 children in England, Scotland and Wales living in households affected by the two-child limit, an increase of over 35,000 from the same time in 2024.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

37,000 more children affected by ‘brutal’ two-child benefit cap, data shows

Nearly 1.7 million children living in households affected by policy that government is being pressed to scrap

The Independent UK

Almost 1.7m children in households caught up in two-child benefit cap

More than half (59%) of households affected by the policy are in work, the data showed.

The National (Scotland)

More than 1.6 million children hit by two-child benefit cap

THE number of households affected by the controversial two-child benefit cap has increased by more than 13,000 over the past year, with more than…

The Guardian - UK

‘We live on bread and tea. I’ve wished for death’: Yemen’s forgotten refugees

War has intensified poverty and hunger as aid is cut, with many families living in makeshift camps barely surviving

Clever Dude

These 10 States Have the Most Residents Relying on Food Stamps

Food insecurity is a pressing issue across America, but in some states it’s alarmingly widespread. This article reveals the 10 U.S. states with the highest food stamp reliance, showing where communities lean on SNAP benefits most. This matters because it reflects deeper economic and policy issues—poverty, joblessness, outreach, and program…

Benzinga

No Degree, No Inheritance, No Safety Net—Just Grit. This Millennial Escaped Generational Poverty And Wants Others To Know They Can Too

Growing up in a trailer park with parents working minimum wage jobs, this millennial didn't have a college degree, inheritance or a financial safety net. What they did have was a job at 16, the drive to keep moving, and two decades of relentless effort that broke the cycle of…

Euronews

Heating or eating: Children in England living in 'almost Dickensian poverty,' report warns

Almost one in three children in the UK live in poverty and the report comes as the government faces growing pressure to scrap the two-child benefit limit.

1 … 19 20 21 22

People

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

Organisations

the Rapid Support Forces

126 stories

the Institute for Fiscal Studies

91 stories

Sure Start

75 stories

the World Food Programme

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.