The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

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

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said he was ‘personally committed to driving down child poverty’.

Rachel Reeves plans to scrap the two-child benefit cap, sparking debate over fairness, cost to taxpayers and its impact on child poverty in the UK.

Chancellor understood to be preparing to fully reverse measure, which would cost over £3bn but could lift 350,000 children out of poverty

The chancellor said it was important not to let the ‘costs to our economy in allowing child poverty to go unchecked’

Estate of former Russian senator Vladimir Sloutsker, who died in September, ordered to pay £25m to his ex-wife

Margot Robbie’s company to make movie based on Northern Ireland academics’ stories of poverty and prison

Kerala has announced that it has “eradicated extreme poverty”, a claim that has drawn admiration, scepticism and everything in between. On South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran and Anisha Sheth speak to IAS officer Anupama TV, Special Secretary of the Local Self Government Department, and Professor Freddy Thomas from Bengaluru’s Christ…