The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

Poverty is set to be one of the key issues dominating the 2024 European elections. The EU is home to 95 million people who live below the poverty line – that is, who live on less than 60 percent of the median income for their country. In all, that's one…

Lining up, they receive some rice, dried beans and other basic foodstuffs, whose soaring prices have left millions in Nigeria facing a bleak Christmas.

Nepali youths risking their lives to fight in Russian forces due to lack of jobs at home, as remittance sent by foreign employment has lifted people out of poverty.

It’s astonishing what we take for granted. Back in early 2010, the most the Evening Standard had ever raised in a campaign was £250,000. That was considered a pretty good result back then for the paper’s traditional annual Christmas drive, which typically solicited funds for a chosen charity. Today, a…

The schoolgirl was able to finish her studies and leave school with English and maths qualifications once she reguarly got a good night’s sleep

THE cost of funding the council tax freeze could instead have been used to increase the Scottish child payment to more than £30 a week, a think…

Mysuru district seeks special package for H.D. Kote with highest poverty rate for complete development.

A bipartisan coalition is growing on Capitol Hill to bring back the expanded child tax credit. America’s children desperately need it

Thanks to the generosity of The Independent readers, we have helped raise £90,000 to fund 500 beds for impoverished children

Your generosity ensures that hundreds of disadvantaged youngsters will have their own bed to sleep in this Christmas for the first time – as you raise £90,000 in less than two weeks

MILLIONS have been trimmed from Scotland’s housing budget – despite rising levels of homelessness and a housing crisis.