The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

Quarter of UK private renters spending over 40% of income on housing amid warning people are ‘trapped in poverty’

MSPs have called on the UK Government to scrap the two-child benefit cap following a heated debate in the Scottish Parliament ...

"The dirty little Coles and Woolies secret is that those workers are paid poverty wages.”

The PM claimed that his government has been striving to help the poor and the downtrodden ever since it came to power and this was reflected in Niti Aayog statistics which showed significant reduction in poverty in the country.

In an apparent attempt to “talk across the political divide”, former chancellor George Osborne and former shadow chancellor Ed Balls have launched a podcast.

The Tory deputy chairman also depended previous comments on food poverty

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan recommends stringent measures to check illegal dumping of sewage in Ernakulam, Kottayam and Alappuzha. District Collectors asked to step up action against violators. Door-step collection of non-biodegradable waste improved. Faecal sludge treatment plants being set up. Poverty eradication, welfare programmes and new projects for each…

Aicha Macky’s documentary spends time with the damaged and dangerous men who call themselves after Hitler, and investigates the vicious cycle caused by poverty and lack of education

Javier Milei, the "anarcho-capitalist" presidential candidate who took the lead in the August primaries with his "Liberty Advances" political coalition, owes much of his electoral success to his promise to dollarise the Argentine economy. Disoriented by hyperinflation and rising poverty, many Argentinians see the adoption of the US dollar as…

HALF-A-MILLION people are in “very deep poverty” in Scotland with statistics showing women and ethnic minorities are disproportionately at risk,…

With its surging population and rife child poverty, Tower Hamlets says its £13.7m funding package will pay off