Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

West Lothian group helping to tackle food poverty get £140,000 funding

Councillors agreed continued funding for the West Lothian Food Network which has seen the number of providers almost double since it was set up in March 2020

Edinburgh Live

OPINION - Here’s our solution to Britain’s mental health crisis

The UK is in the throes of a mental health crisis and the young and those in financial poverty are at greatest risk. One in four 17- to 19-year-olds have a probable mental health disorder and rates of mental health difficulties in children aged seven to 16 have risen by…

Evening Standard

One in four Scottish children in poverty – but UK-wide it's even worse, data shows

ONE in four Scottish children is living in poverty – and two-thirds of those are in a household with someone who is in paid employment, according…

The National (Scotland)

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Child poverty in Scotland at same 'disturbing' level as when SNP first took power

The poverty figures were published on the same day as Nicola Sturgeon faces MSPs for the final time as First Minister.

Daily Record

Number of people in poverty in UK back to pre-pandemic levels

A children’s charity has accused the Government of having ‘snatched away’ help for families after the temporary increase in universal credit.

The Independent UK

New Zealand child poverty rate remains static despite Ardern-era push

The then leader had made improving the lives of the poorest children a key plank of her agenda

The Guardian - AU

Child poverty hurting one in 10 New Zealand kids

The Child Poverty Action Group say New Zealand kids face a bleak future without investment in the poorest households.

AAP

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Getting a fuller picture of poverty in Canada: why the government's official poverty measure is insufficient

Canada’s inflation rate has started to ease up after peaking at 8.1 per cent last summer, but food and shelter prices are showing little sign of slowing down.

The Conversation

Leeds council confirms £16.8M fund for 'green' home upgrades

Leeds City Council has secured £16.8million to fund its new Net Zero Homes Plan

Leeds Live

Glasgow-born babies lives are 12 years shorter than those in wealthy parts of London

Campaign group, Health Equals, believe that poor living conditions, substandard education and poverty have the cut the lives of millions of people short and more needs to be done.

Glasgow Live

Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond review – how the rich keep the poor down

A Pulitzer-winning sociologist argues that the United States’s gross inequality is no accident

The Guardian - UK

Review: 'Poverty, By America,' by Matthew Desmond

NONFICTION: The Pulitzer Prize winner has a bold way of looking at — and solving — poverty.

Tribune News Service

Poverty leaves Canberrans 'on the edge': Alicia Payne

Labor MP Alicia Payne and Liberal MP Bridget Archer will co-chair a parliamentary friendship group focused on ending poverty.

The Canberra Times

Private opulence, public squalor: How the U.S. helps the rich and hurts the poor

Poverty, by America author Matthew Desmond says if the top 1% of Americans paid the taxes they owed, it would raise $175 billion each year: "That is just about enough to pull everyone out of poverty."

WEKU

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

AAP

Study shines light on depth of poverty in Australia

Poverty in Australia is highly gendered and affects single parents, migrants and people living with a disability at above average rates, a new study has found.

The Guardian - AU

Majority of Australians on jobseeker and parenting payments live in poverty, study finds

Report on 3 million people living below the breadline shows welfare payments are ‘totally inadequate’ and action is needed in May budget, Acoss says

The Guardian - UK

Oxfam’s job is to end poverty – we refuse to be distracted by the toxic culture wars

Charities should be open to fair criticism, but the reaction to our inclusive language guide was offensive and divisive, says Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah, chief executive of Oxfam GB

Evening Standard

Skyrocketing rents, job-style interviews and ‘dangerous’ housing: inside the capital’s renting hell

The cost of London rentals has risen by 16 per cent in a year, triggering a nightmarish reality of no-fault evictions, unprecedented competition and tenants being pushed into poverty. Emma Magnus meets those on the frontline

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - AU

Cross-party anti-poverty push targets ‘inadequate’ jobseeker payments

Liberal and Labor MPs Bridget Archer and Alicia Payne unite in call for welfare boost

Evening Standard

Lidl expands Good to Give initiative to include tampons and nappies to tackle hygiene poverty

The supermarket has added hygiene products to its Good to Give range after research showed food bank users increasing also need donated toiletries

Salon

Boebert blows up the GOP's talking point

Here are some inconvenient facts that upset the dominant narrative about the color line and poverty in America

The Guardian - UK

Economic growth is not a magic wand for ending poverty

Misguided policies are hurting the poorest in society; our focus should be on reducing inequality not increasing GDP

The Guardian - UK

Matthew Desmond: ‘The poverty rate in America and the UK should be zero – and I think we can get there’

For the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Evicted, a heartbreaking study of the American housing crisis, bearing witness was not enough

The Independent UK

Russia, Ukraine extend grain deal to aid world's poor

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Ukrainian officials say an unprecedented wartime deal that allows grain to flow from Ukraine to countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia where hunger is a growing threat and high food prices are pushing more people into poverty has been extended

Chronicle Live

New childcare plans could 'lock out' North East families, campaigners fear

The North East Child Poverty Commission believes free childcare should be available to all babies and children

1 … 102 103 104 105

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the Scottish Government

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.