The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

In the city from which Lebanon's richest politicians hail, the poorest residents once again mourn their dead.

The work of award-winning American photographer Eugene Richards was recently the subject of a retrospective at the international photojournalism festival, Visa Pour l'Image. The 78-year-old has documented poverty in the US, photographed drug addicts, patients in psychiatric hospitals, Iraq war veterans. His exhibition is called "An Outsider".

For decades, millions of Egyptians have depended on the government to keep basic goods affordable

The Sunday Mirror's End Poverty Now campaign is calling for England and Wales to be brought in line with Scotland by making sanitary products free to those who need them

Chancellor's huge package of personal tax cuts will do nothing to stop more than two million people falling below the poverty line, says think tank

A new study reveals that the rise of capitalism has coincided with worse living conditions — unless regulated

Most of my mother’s stories of growing up in Jamaica had a common theme of shame and poverty. Somehow my mom and grandmom were able to reconcile their resistance to colonialism with their love of the Queen.

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng announced a huge set of measures on Friday, including abolishing the top rate of income tax for high earners, which will be funded by more than £70bn of borrowing

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng's mini-Budget announcement included a lift on the cap on bankers' bonuses and an axe of the planned rise to corporation tax

GOP governors' ploy highlights the value of giving states the power to issue their own migration visas. It can simultaneously ease labor shortages, reduce disorder at the border, enable more migrants to escape poverty and oppression, and help restore the original meaning of the Constitution.

Kwasi Kwarteng and Liz Truss accused of ‘prioritising bankers’ bonuses’ over hardest-hit families