The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

Institute for Fiscal Studies report, published last week, found that benefit cuts had pushed up child poverty levels prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, with families with three or more children seeing “substantially larger” increases.

Campaigners calls for daily fee to be abolished amid fears than more than a third of homes will be in fuel poverty by Christmas

A series of reports has painted a grim picture of the challenges faced by children growing up in the borough

The World Bank approved last week $500 million to help strengthen human capital and resilience in Morocco. Minister Delegate in charge of the Budget Fouzi Lekjaa and World Bank Director of Operations for the Maghreb and Malta Jesko Hentschel signed the agreement on Monday, which represents the first tranche of…

A sobering new report lays bare the stark scale of the cost of living crisis

City leader accuses company of pushing staff into poverty as bus strike set to head into eighth day

Shocking child poverty figures have left the North East reeling

Former South African President Thabo Mbeki recently launched a sharp critique of the governing African National Congress (ANC) for failure to address what it has labelled the triple challenge of poverty, unemployment and inequality.

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