The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

Voters think businesses need to play a bigger role in the fight against climate change and poverty, research reveals

Charles Kingley was a widower and a single father of four who lived in the Northern Liberties neighborhood of Philadelphia in 1829. He worked at a brewhouse but struggled to secure care for his youngest child, William, who was about 5 years old and nearly blind.

After losing her job, Felisa Rogers found herself on government assistance, fearing judgment decades after a food-insecure childhood

We’re at around the midway point of the 2024 election campaign and the two main party leaders have undergone a grilling by Sky News. This was not a head-to-head debate but two separate interviews with Sky’s political editor Beth Rigby, followed by questions from the public.

Pension commitments and a sickly population mean that by 2029 Britain’s welfare bill will be increasing by £20bn a year, analysis by Resolution Foundation predicts

Often nothing left for other necessities or emergencies, Anglicare says, with Centrelink payment levels ‘trapping people in poverty’

A study by the National Women's Law Center also shows that Hispanic women are significantly overrepresented in the tipped workforce

Voters think businesses need to play a bigger role in the fight against climate change and poverty, research reveals

Letter: Andrew Forsey suggests reforms that would ensure fewer children’s lives are blighted by poverty and hunger

Scotland faces a “significant” challenge if it is to eradicate child poverty, First Minister John Swinney has told MSPs.

In the first instalment of a special series on the emblems of Tory Britain, the former prime minister Gordon Brown looks at the avoidable epidemic of hunger – which is getting worse