The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

The life-saving drug “Narcan” is expected to be available over-the-counter later this year, but its price tag is expected to put it out of reach for many below the poverty line.

Both the Mayor and the Government have been urged by the London Assembly to take further action to address food poverty in the capital

Tower Hamlets has the highest level of child poverty in the UK with over 50% children living in households below the poverty line

The government has said that people on disability benefits aren't in enough 'fuel poverty' with their energy bills

According to new research, people with epilepsy who live in disadvantaged neighbourhoods with higher poverty rates and fewer educational and employment opportunities may be more likely to have memory, thinking, and mental health problems than people with epilepsy who live in less disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Read further on Dynamite News;

People on disability benefits aren't in enough 'fuel poverty' with their energy bills, the Government said

Government faced with growing warnings that not substantially lifting welfare payments in the budget will be to fail a test of its character.

Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Minister for Social Services Amanda Rishworth established an Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee in December 2022 to advise the government on ways to lift economic inclusion and reduce disadvantage.

I was hoping for help from the Albanese government in the coming May budget but it stung me to hear there would be none

Maguire, himself brought up in dire poverty, deployed charisma and tireless activism in the cause of the ‘unloved and unlovely’

Australian students are trying to scrape by on just $13 a day as welfare payments fail to keep pace with the cost of living, new analysis shows. A report