The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

Rising rates restricting the life chances of people in the North from the day they're born

Less than two months before the constitutional date that allows for the election of a new president for Lebanon, the severe economic and financial crisis that the country has been witnessing since the fall of 2019 continues to worsen. The devaluation of the Lebanese currency, which has lost more than…

The cost of living crisis is nothing new for millions of people who have lived in fear of hunger and homelessness for 12 years, says London-based writer Francisco Garcia

THE Scottish Government is being urged to “act now” by campaigners, as child poverty remains “stubbornly” high across Scotland.

Editorial: The north-east has overtaken London on child poverty. Alarming price rises are on the cards. Yet the Tories have nothing to say

Almost two-fifths of children in north-east live in poverty after a decade of decline as campaigners warn of worse to come

It equates to ten children in a classroom of 30

Newcastle has seen the number of children growing up poor rise by 50% in the last seven years - the biggest increase in the UK

Groups fear more families will be pushed into poverty, with the £20-a-week uplift now removed and the cost-of-living crisis continuing to deepen.

Lottery retailers in nearly every state are clustered in lower-income neighborhoods, driving a wealth transfer from less affluent and educated Americans to the multinational corporations that are increasingly managing the day-to-day operations of the state-sanctioned gambling games

More than 5,000 children in Renfrewshire and more than 2,000 in East Renfrewshire classified as living in poverty by new report.