The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

Have you ever felt like no matter how much you save, work, or plan, you’re still one setback away from financial disaster? That anxiety often stems from what’s known as the scarcity mindset—a fear-driven approach to money that keeps you in survival mode even when your circumstances improve. Many people…

Between 2007 and 2010 Southwark council licensed 76 films to be shot on the high-rise Heygate estate in London’s Walworth area, providing a gritty backdrop for dramas of poverty and crime. This “theatre of stigma”, a term coined by historian of modern Britain Holly Smith, had come to dominate the…

Letters: Jeremy Cross says disjointed policies are trapping people in poverty and isolation, while Monica Hall considers the cost of potholes. Plus letters from Derrick Joad and Colin Burke

The First Minister said UK Government decisions could stimy action by ministers at Holyrood.

“Income inequality hits a 20-year high”. “Housing is less affordable than ever”. “The staggering truth about wage inequality in Australia”. Those are just some of the headlines we’ve seen this year about new research on growing inequality, which often hits younger Australians hardest.

San Francisco's tech boom coexists with a severe drug epidemic and homelessness, leading to high overdose rates and criticism from prominent figures like Elon Musk and Donald Trump.

Exclusive: education secretary tells the Guardian scrapping limit entirely in November’s budget most cost-effective way to tackle child poverty

Method has become popular among drug users in poverty-stricken areas of Africa and Pacific areas

Exclusive: Tens of thousands of families are forced to take out loans to cover the five-week wait until their first universal credit payment – but many struggle to pay it back