The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

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

The soaring cost of living, and in particular the spiralling energy costs for homes, is now seeing 17.5% of people spending more than 10% of their income on energy bills

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’

The 2015 blueprint – agreed by 195 nations – is meant to be ’fully embedded in planned activity of each department‘