The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

“Rich Dad Poor Dad,” author Robert Kiyosaki has once again sparked conversation online with unrestrained financial advice aimed at those struggling with poverty. In a recent post on X, he said, “While I feel for poor people … I do not believe in giving poor people money.”

As she carefully prepares the UK’s reaction to her second budget the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has now hinted that she may be ready to scrap the two-child benefits cap.

AP reporter Bianca Vázquez Toness has heard teachers worry that the most pernicious challenges their students face, like poverty or housing insecurity, are beyond the realm of what schools can fix

From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are supplying cheap, clean electricity to homes and helping tackle fuel poverty

More than 7 million Americans living with dementia — a number expected to double by 2060

Affordable health care was the primary point of contention in the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, which hit 43 days on Nov. 12, 2025.

‘Abolishing the two-child limit in full will set millions of children’s lives on a path to a brighter future’, major organisations say

This appeal comes ahead of Reeves’s upcoming Budget announcement in Westminster later this month

PM attacks ‘toxic division of Reform’ and gives strongest signal yet that two-child benefit cap will be lifted

‘You won't have to wait much longer to see what the measures are (to tackle child poverty)’ - Sir Keir Starmer

The prime minister said his government will be ‘taking a number of measures’ to tackle child poverty