The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

With a third of the population unemployed, poverty has dramatically increased in South Africa in the past five years, and millions depend on grants. As South Africans head to the polls on 29 May, both the ruling party and its challengers are promising to introduce a universal basic income –…

The unequal distribution of resources needs to be addressed at government level

Red Nose Day has raised $370 million since 2015 to fund anti-poverty efforts

Report shows country has slid into a protracted financial crisis, with Syrian refugee population hit particularly hard.

The World Bank says poverty in Lebanon has tripled over the course of a decade during which the small Mediterranean country slid into a protracted financial crisis

Never fall for the line that lifting people out of poverty and reducing inequality is a task too complex or costly to undertake

In his bid to become North Carolina’s first Black governor, Republican Mark Robinson assails government safety net spending as a “plantation of welfare and victimhood” that’s mired Black people in “dependency” and poverty

THE First Minister has said eradicating child poverty is the “single most important objective” of his government, ahead of a speech today to set…

SCOTLAND'S former chief constable Iain Livingstone has been appointed to head up a drive to deliver donations of millions of pounds worth of…