The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

Other nations should adopt the Indian move of targeted cash transfer instead of broad subsidies, says World Bank President David Malpass

Legislation passed on the day the then PM delivered her slap-down has forced single-mother families into dire poverty

A council report released this week looking at Sefton’s approach to tackling child poverty lays out the scale of the problem in the borough

The Kentucky coal miner’s daughter, whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty and made her a pillar of country music, has died. She was 90.

Kentucky-born singer went from poverty and teenage marriage to becoming one of the most celebrated stars of US country

City 15 miles from Tory conference has England’s highest fuel poverty rate and is setting up warm banks for winter

Analyses of the implications of extending income support measures in South Africa, including a basic income grant, have focused on one of three things: how much it will cost, calculations about how much revenue would need to be raised (but without assessing the ripple effects), and how it might affect…

'How can we have food poverty when we’ve got an obesity crisis?'

Kenneth Lawrie says the plan will help the council make tough decisions in the coming five years

The Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, runaway inflation and climate change are all fuelling a global food security crisis. Gayle E. Smith is the chief executive officer of the ONE Campaign, an NGO co-founded by the singer Bono. She spoke to FRANCE 24 about fighting extreme poverty in the…

Previously only social work staff could give out the special destitution payments but the cost of living crisis means there is a need to respond urgently so other health workers are now being authorised to do so.