The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

A dramatic increase in funding will be needed to eradicate a disease which stems from poverty in Australia's Indigenous community, according to a leading paedeatrician.

New president pledges to reduce poverty, improve health services for mothers, children, and restore political stability.

One way to make sense of Finance Minister Grant Robertson’s fifth budget speech was to see it as a political performance working on different levels.

Government says child poverty is easing in all areas but those on the ground say the dial has barely shifted in the past five years

Record View says what has been in terms of austerity in the last decade will have nothing what's to come.

When US Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau opened the Bretton Woods Conference almost 80 years ago, he reminded delegates that failures of international cooperation had led to the Great Depression, social division and ultimately war. "Prosperity, like peace, is indivisible," he concluded, "we cannot afford to have it scattered…

The Promise Guaranteed Income Pilot is the latest in the U.S. to try out the idea of tackling poverty and racial inequalities by giving residents monthly cash payments. Applications will be taken in the fall for the 3,250 spots.

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New chief inspector of constabulary says crimes of poverty should be ‘dealt with in the best way possible’