The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

The Trussell Trust's chief executive Emma Revie used a Christmas carol service to reveal her fears for the coming weeks as financial hardship grips poverty-hit families

Without a good chance of finding work, Michelle Jackson said her life was ‘never going to improve’

Study suggests the health of the nation is being made worse by poverty, poor housing, a lack of heating and missing meals

Mental health charity demands greater government support after survey shows more than half of all students suffer some form of depression

A new report calls for targeted help for those who will no longer qualify from changes next spring

21% of the children reported not being able to get food they wanted in the last month because there was not enough money available

Since the “refugee crisis” in 2015 precipitated the rise of the far right in Europe, debates on the impact of migration on welfare states have raged across the continent. It is hardly surprising, therefore, that EU- and non-EU migrants alike still struggle to access welfare benefits in their European countries…

Campaigners urge policymakers to act on ‘cycle of poverty’ entrapping generations of British muslims

Campaigners from the End Fuel Poverty Coalition have called for an end to pre-payment meters which they say will cause the deaths of several people this winter in the UK