The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

The crisis is having a disproportionate impact on women’s mental health, the British Psychological Society warned.

A bad idea by any other name is still a bad idea.

Lebanon’s health ministry on Thursday announced the crisis-hit country’s first case of cholera in decades. The announcement comes as neighboring war-torn Syria is struggling to contain a cholera outbreak that has spread across the country over the past month. Lebanon began a downward spiral in late 2019 that has plunged…

Why have an expanded Child Tax Credit and universal free school meals both been stymied by Republicans in Congress?

Editorial: The disproportionate impact of cost of living rises on ethnic minorities, especially women, must be addressed

Felix Project’s founder calls on industry to help rescue vast sums of edible food still going to landfill

MORE families are set to benefit from funded school-age childcare as part of a national mission to tackle child poverty.

A Lebanese judge on Thursday fined and issued a six-month travel ban to a woman who stormed her bank with a fake pistol and took her trapped savings to cover her sister's cancer treatment. Lebanon’s cash-strapped banks have imposed strict limits on withdrawals of foreign currency since 2019, tying up…

Analysis finds minority ethnic people make up 15% of population but account for 26% of those in deep poverty

More than one in ten households are in fuel poverty and it's only predicted to get worse

Effects of COVID and Ukraine war make it unlikely for eradicating extreme poverty by decade’s end, World Bank says.