The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

The Succession actor has backed Action For Children’s call for the Government to lift more than one million children out of poverty.

Lifting two-child benefit cap ‘single most cost-effective policy’ for government, charity finds

Nigeria has abundant human and natural resources but remains mired in underdevelopment. There are high levels of poverty, corruption, unemployment and inequality. The country is currently witnessing a rise in ethnic militias and terrorism, adding to the threats posed by armed herdsmen’s deadly clashes with rural communities over land.

Many MPs will feel that pushing people in to poverty to balance the books is not what they came into politics to do

Exclusive: Clare Moriarty hits out at Labour’s plan as ‘short-term action’ with ‘long-term consequences’ in rare intervention

New sentencing guidelines for England and Wales address gender and ethnicity but ignore poverty

In the Greek city of Ioannina, the CommonEn energy community provides a sustainable, renewable-powered solution to energy poverty.

Campaigners urge Ofgem to refund UK households after energy network companies ‘profit from high inflation’

OKAY, Starmer, what have you got for us today? The benefits system is the “worst of all worlds”?