The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

Editorial: Under Katharine Birbalsingh, the body has moved as far as possible away from its initial remit of child poverty

Businessman Leonardo del Vecchio, who has died aged 87, created the glasses company that owns brands including Ray-Ban and used his billions to become one of the most influential figures in Italian finance.

Study after study explodes the myth of the benefit ‘scrounger’. Sympathy is growing – but apparently not among Tories, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Overall, a quarter of the female population find it more difficult now to afford basic sanitary protection - due to the rising cost of living and effects of the pandemic

"Everybody is hurting. There are people over there now who are experiencing real poverty"

Activtsts gathered in City Square less than two weeks after the council became the first in Scotland to declare a "cost-of-living emergency".

The former King George V Comp pupil took the 'red wall' seat of Wakefield from the Conservatives and pledged to stand up for people in poverty

Afghanistan’s deadliest earthquake in more than two decades took place on June 22, 2022, killing more than 1,000 people and injuring at least 1,600. The disaster struck a remote mountainous region and came at a time when millions of Afghans are experiencing severe poverty and hunger. Since the Taliban, which…

Revived crusade founded by Dr. King focuses on new rise of union organizing at Amazon, Starbucks and elsewhere

Former US Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday denounced the Iranian regime for "brutality" and urged the Biden administration not to renew a nuclear deal with Tehran, saying it would embolden Iran's leadership. Pence flew 5,000 miles (8,000 kilometers) from his home in Indiana to Albania to visit the Ashraf-3…

Senior UN officials say the earthquake in Afghanistan has added another emergency facing the country, which is also confronting its worst drought in 30 years and massive poverty