The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

Can you make a living from playing video games? Millions of Filipinos who earn cryptocurrency playing online games seem to think so. Players earn tokens they then trade in a virtual market for pesos or dollars. They can earn up to twice the minimum wage – an irresistible prospect for…

French city’s election of a National Rally mayor has been a study in the party’s attempts to normalise itself in local politics

JOHN Swinney has drawn praise after challenging a BBC host’s question which used language experts have described as "stigmatising" ...

Thinktank says decisive action must be taken to counter inequality in health, housing, poverty and the north-south income divide

Tees Valley project is hoping to help 10,000 children whose ability to learn is suffering as a result of bed poverty

The 14 grinding years of Conservative rule have been devastating for too many women

Its residents make up just 6.5% of the city’s population, and yet host two-thirds of the city’s waste sites, incinerators, and factories.

GORDON Brown has claimed that a Labour government would “turn the tide” on child poverty despite his party’s refusal to scrap the two-child…

The Conservatives want us to think child poverty is somehow normal. When you vote next Thursday, remember that chilling fact, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan