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The North East was named as the UK's child poverty capital earlier this year, with Newcastle having the worst deprivation figures in the region

Energy price cap increase could push more people into poverty

Child poverty campaigners in new appeal

Households whose benefits are capped will be left on average £65 a week worse off from April than they would be without a cap, campaigners said.

Lebanon is suffering from an economic crisis since 2019, plunging three-quarters of its population below poverty.

James Winters said he's determined "not to miss a day" as families in poverty "can't take a night off"

Near-universal social security pensions would be a good start to a radical expansion of public support for the elderly

TORY councillors attempted to delay a local authority from discussing poverty in some of Scotland’s most deprived communities as a mark of respect…

The fall from 9.7% in 2020 to 5.2% in 2021 was largely due to enhanced child tax credits provided to low-income families during Covid

"The failure of justice in the said cases was occasioned by poverty, social exclusion, legal illiteracy, impersonal administration and denial of legal aid. Exactions of poverty are more severe than punishments in law. For them the glorious dawn of the 75th year of independence has lost the sheen of freedom’s…

Government poverty-reduction programs were decisive.