The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

The Chancellor has been called on to address a ‘cost-of-children crisis’ in the forthcoming autumn statement as research highlights family struggles.

Domestic energy prices more than doubled during 2022 compared with the year before. This meant that the number of UK households in fuel poverty who could not afford to heat their homes to a safe level rose from 4.5 million to 7.3 million.

As so many of us are pushed into poverty, Jamie Oliver’s shtick has become more basic – but his overhyping of cheap eats is starting to grate. Is cheesy pea pasta really worth televising?

Chief Sec. Reddy urged Central Gov. to provide funds for effective implementation of Andhra Pradesh Vision 2047 Strategy. He proposed a similar insurance scheme for people living above poverty line. NITI Aayog presented details of strategy to develop State across sectors. Workshops to be conducted in 3rd week of October.

At the SDG Summit, world leaders reaffirmed their commitment to end poverty and hunger. Despite this, progress on SDGs has been slow and investment gap is estimated to be greater than $4 trillion. To bridge this gap, synergistic approaches must be taken to identify and develop reporting frameworks on the…

A cash-freeze on Universal Credit and other benefits could plunge an additional 400,000 children into poverty, according to research.

Poverty rates among older people are higher in the capital than the England-wide average

Labour’s frontbench is promising to tackle child poverty and to make work pay, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Nutritious lunches should be seen as an effective way to address obesity, chronic illness and poverty, says coalition

Speakers at the 2023 Labour party conference have rightly addressed the economic insecurity affecting families across the UK. As winter approaches, many are at breaking point. One week earlier, however, the Conservatives were notably quiet on this point. And yet, the government’s own statistics show that four in ten adults…

In 2022, the median annual earnings for workers in the United States was $46,367, down nearly 7% from 2021.