The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

RISHI Sunak is being urged to introduce an uplift to Universal Credit to prevent people falling into destitution this winter, with warnings it would…

Exclusive: Another 1.6 million people will be pulled below real living wage rates, research shows

With Universal Credit too low to cover rising gas and electricity charges and soaring food bills, the safety net for millions of families is not now our welfare state but food banks and charity

Experts say 800,000 pupils in poverty in England are excluded from free lunches. Parents and a teacher tell us what this means to them

I consider Wes a friend and a mentor. I know how much he has meant to Baltimore's marginalized communities

WE can’t stick to the same failed policies that brought us here. An independent Scotland must have an economy that works for both the people and…

The tarnish is beginning to taint the nation’s social and economic health as the poor continue to struggle and the wealthy keep coasting.

In tonight's edition: As African countries at the COP27 climate summit say wealthy nations haven't done enough to stop them from having to develop their oil industries, we ask how renewable sources can be used to lift people out of poverty on the African continent. Also, thousands of public workers…

Families from ‘working poor’ omitted from scheme, and costs crisis leaves schools powerless to subsidise them

African nations must be allowed to develop fossil fuel resources to help lift their people out of poverty, governments said at the COP27 climate talks in Egypt, which welcomed leaders of oil and gas companies sidelined at previous talks.

The United Kingdom faced a barrage of questions and criticism of its migration and poverty policies in a United Nations review of its human rights record on Thursday amid allegations that it is backsliding on freedoms.